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So you've been publicly shamed by an employee. What steps should HR take?

A civil servant was sacked after calling into a radio station to publicly criticise a Government minister in the final weeks of Boris Johnson’s time as Prime Minister.

As reported by The Guardian, a now-ex employee at GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence & security base, called into LBC to publicly demand that the Head of Civil Service, Simon Case, step down.

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