Tesco settles sexual harassment case for £45k

Ms Storey said after raising a grievance, the colleague she complained about remained in post after “assurances were given that they would be retrained or relocated to another department or store”.

“He was left to work alongside me over those months – a year, a year and a bit,” she said.

Ms Storey said: “I wish none of this had ever happened.

“I was a student working my way through university – I didn’t ask for any of this.

“I had to challenge it and I’m glad I did.

“I want other women to know that they don’t have to accept this type of behaviour or treatment, and they should expect to be treated fairly by their employer.”

Ms Storey said she was offered no support or help from Tesco during the grievance period and previous assurances made about not working with the colleague involved in the complaint were not upheld.

“Any reassurance I got was continually broken (by Tesco).”

Ms Storey said she felt she had to change her own work pattern and where she worked within the store to avoid the colleague.

“I took my own initiative to remove myself from that environment and throughout the process I was told he had the same right to work in that store as I did.”