UK Bank Employee Awarded over $1.5 Million in Bullying Case

Helen Green, 36, was awarded £817,317 in damages due to the harassment and persecution she faced at her workplace. Judge Mr Justice Owen ruled that her bosses at Deutsche Bank “closed their eyes” to the “relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour.” Green, who earned £45,000 a year, said she was picked on by four women in the firm’s secretariat division and “stonewalled” from day one. After nine weeks, they filed into an office where she was and Daniella Dolbear asked: “What’s that stink over there?” while covering her nose. This was the “department from hell” with co-workers seeing her as competition in a Darwinian-style “survival of the fittest”, according to the judge. The victim stated, “There was one time when I was walking over to the stationery cupboard and she was blowing raspberries with every step.” Finally, she had two breakdowns and was in hospital on suicide watch before leaving the bank in October 2001.