Woman Whose Colleagues Placed Bets On Who Would Sleep With Her First Loses Sexual Harassment Claim

A saleswoman was left stunned after discovering that her male colleagues, including her boss, had placed bets on who would be the first to have sex with her.

Molly Craig, 25, sued the firm – East Anglia Home Improvements – and a judge agreed that betting on who will sleep with a female colleague did indeed amount to harassment.

However, Molly still ended up losing the case on a technicality because she brought her claim too late. Couldn’t they have mentioned that to her before it got dragged through the courts?

It means that not only has Molly lost the sexual harassment claim, she now also has to pay her firm’s legal costs to the tune of £7,500.

Molly first joined the company – which describes itself as ‘the UK’s number one home improvement provider’ – in 2022 and claimed she found out within two months that two of her colleagues had ‘placed a wager between themselves as to who would sleep with me first’.  

She acknowledged that the men did not know she was in a ‘long-term’ and ‘committed’ relationship at the time.

She said the comment ‘stuck’ with her ‘as it was the first time I felt my colleagues, one of which was a member of management, sexualised me and singled me out, all down to my sex’.

She also claims to have been told that she was hired because ‘she would not intimidate elderly customers’. 

The tribunal heard that there was no evidence that Molly had ‘directly confronted anyone about the wager or sought further information or even tried to ascertain whether the information given by [her colleague] was true’.

But she added: ‘I find that any such wager is unwanted conduct of a sexual nature.’

Still, the wager allegation was brought ‘out of time’, and her complaints of sexual harassment were dismissed.

However, she did win an unpaid holiday claim against her boss, and the business was ordered to pay her £4,775. Which I guess she can put toward paying their £7,500 legal costs. Absolutely gutted.

Meanwhile, I wonder if the wives and girlfriends of her colleagues/boss knew about this wager? Welp, they do now.

For the NHS worker who won £28,000 compensation after her co-worker compared her to Darth Vader, click HERE.

[h/t Daily Mail]