Pizza Hut | Employees were sacked after reporting sexual harassment from bosses, tribunal rules

Pizza Hut employees were sacked after raising the alarm about being sexually harassed at work, an employment tribunal ruled.

Kailam Fearn and Sian Murphy, were wrongfully dismissed for speaking out against sexual harassment and discriminatory behavior at two Neath Port Talbot branches of the franchise. 

The tribunal ruled that both employees were unfairly terminated for gross misconduct in June 2021 after raising concerns about two managers, Rhys Stephens and Dean Green.

Ms. Murphy, 28, was subjected to sexual harassment by Neath store manager Rhys Stephens, who made inappropriate comments about her appearance, saying her nipples were “like cut diamonds” when in the branch’s cold store, and also said "she shouldn't bend down like that in front of men" when she bent down to pick something up off the floor.