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24th March 2022
11:48am GMT

The woman, who is said to have worked in sport for over 20 years, was advised not to take on a role at the WRU by a senior manager who suggested that they will 'eat you up and spit you out'.
She also claims that a senior WRU employee said she was 'a bit like Hitler' and that she was told she has a way of bringing people on her journey like a 'cult leader'.
It is added that the woman says she was reduced to tears by this and reported the incident. She reported feeling bullied and victimised.In her formal statement she said: "I became increasingly limited as to what I could and couldn’t do in my role and started to feel utterly helpless.
"I was having to walk past more and more inappropriate behaviour in order to survive. Following on from this, I walked out of the office and phoned the chief executive and said I was done."
The Daily Mail report that, in 2019, a mediation meeting was held at a Cardiff hotel where she was told the employee who made those alleged remarks was 'a nice man'.
She added: "In 20 years of a robust professional career working across the private, public and third sector, never have I experienced some of the behaviours I have been exposed to at the WRU.
"I am utterly disgusted by the way I have been made to feel. I am shocked that in 2021, I am experiencing barriers to purposely inhibit the development of the women’s game in Wales.
"I am exhausted. I am broken."
A WRU statement read: "The grievance was taken extremely seriously by the WRU and was the subject of a comprehensive investigation by an external law firm. Following that investigation, the grievance was not upheld.
"No further comment will be made at this time given the ongoing Employment Tribunal claim."
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