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Ex-S4C boss Amanda Rees claims safeguarding failures in High Court case

A former senior manager at a publicly-funded broadcaster has accused her former employer of failing to safeguard her health, safety and wellbeing. Amanda Rees, 55, has lodged a High Court claim against S4C - the third former executive to do so in the past two years. Former chief executive Sian Doyle recently settled her personal injury claim against the Welsh-language broadcaster and its former chairman Rhodri Williams. S4C's former chief content officer Llinos Griffin-Williams also has a legal claim lodged against the channel. Griffin-Williams was dismissed for gross misconduct after allegedly being drunk and verbally abusing former Wales scrum half Mike Phillips at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Newyddion S4C understands a settlement is also close to being agreed in that High Court case. In a lengthy statement from Rees's legal representatives Irwin Mitchell, it is alleged that S4C's board and senior management team "failed to offer appropriate oversight of an [organisational change] process that was conducted inappropriately and excessively robustly". Lawyers claim S4C was a "toxic" workplace culture where "bullying took place under the guise of a process of organisational change". F

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Welsh language channel S4C settles with second former executive

A second former S4C executive has received what is understood to be a signficiant financial settlement which brings legal action to a close. S4C, which gets most of its funding through the BBC licence fee, confirmed it has settled a High…

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Welsh language channel S4C settles with second former executive

A second former S4C executive has received what is understood to be a signficiant financial settlement which brings legal action to a close. S4C, which gets most of its funding through the BBC licence fee, confirmed it…

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Ex-S4C boss Amanda Rees claims safeguarding failures in High Court case

A former senior manager at a publicly-funded broadcaster has accused her former employer of failing to safeguard her health, safety and wellbeing. Amanda Rees, 55, has lodged a High Court claim against S4C - the third…

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