Ex-CBI boss not shown report that led to dismissal

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By Simon Jack, Dearbail Jordan & Faarea Masud

BBC News

The sacked brag of the CBI was not shown a transcript of the study that led to his contiguous dismissal from the concern lobby group.

Tony Danker was fired pursuing allegations of workplace misconduct astatine the lobby group.

The BBC understands Mr Danker was interviewed and submitted written grounds arsenic portion of an autarkic probe but was not fixed a accidental to respond to the last report.

The CBI declined to comment.

Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that a large FTSE 100 institution has suspended each engagement with the CBI pursuing abstracted allegations of superior intersexual misconduct astatine the group. Mr Danker is not the taxable of these allegations.

Another ample bluish spot UK institution - which wished to stay anonymous - said it was "deeply concerned" astir the claims facing the lobby group.

Law steadfast Fox Williams conducted an probe which recovered that Mr Danker's behaviour had fallen abbreviated of that expected of the manager general.

This included a ailment from a pistillate worker successful January and complaints from different members of unit which surfaced past month.

Mr Danker wrote connected societal media: "Many of the allegations against maine person been distorted, but I recognise that I unintentionally made a fig of colleagues consciousness uncomfortable and I americium genuinely atrocious astir that".

Mr Danker was appointed arsenic manager wide of the CBI successful 2020.

He is being replaced by Rain Newton-Smith who is returning to the CBI. She was main economist astatine the lobby radical betwixt 2014 and March this twelvemonth erstwhile she near to articulation Barclays.

Fox Williams is besides investigating intersexual misconduct claims against CBI employees, including an allegation of rape astatine a summertime vessel enactment successful 2019.

Three CBI employees person been suspended and the City of London constabulary are investigating the claims.

Many companies contacted by the BBC who are members of the CBI person expressed heavy concerns implicit the allegations and are reviewing their rank of the concern lobby group, pending the result of the investigations.

The authorities has said it volition widen the intermission it has placed connected engagement with the CBI until Fox Williams' probe has concluded.

It is not wide whether the engagement of the constabulary volition change the timetable of the study and the CBI could not estimation erstwhile it mightiness beryllium published.

It leaves the CBI successful limbo for the clip being, incapable to efficaciously prosecute with either authorities oregon its ain members.

A spokesperson for Rolls-Royce, the aerospace giant, said the allegations were "deeply concerning".

"We enactment the actions that the CBI has announced and that investigations are continuing. We volition await the completion of these investigations earlier considering our membership," they spokesperson added.

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