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Casino Manager Wins £40,000 Compensation

21 March 2003

UNITED KINGDOM – As reported by the UK Independent: "A casino manager has won £40,000 (US$62,534) compensation after her bosses secretly filmed her at home to try to prove she was having an affair with a married work colleague.

"Stephanie Halliday, 41, was sacked from her job as senior floor manager at Ritz Club Casino in Piccadilly, London, because she was suspected of lying about her relationship with another manager, Anthony Piotrowskie, 47.

"Despite the casino's claim, supported by video evidence and mobile phone call records, that the couple had begun a secret relationship, Croydon Employment Tribunal ruled that they had both been unfairly dismissed.

"…Ms Halliday's lawyer told the tribunal that she had insisted all along that the relationship with Mr Piotrowskie was purely platonic. But Andrew Love, chief executive of the Ritz Club Casino, said he made Ms Halliday redundant in 2001 because he believed she had lied to him.

"…She said she could not believe the company had filmed her at her home in Bexley, south-east London, and checked the mobile phone accounts of Mr Piotrowskie…"

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