JUSTICE Secretary Chris Grayling was called on to apologise yesterday for insulting a probation worker who complained after bosses picked her for privatisation by pulling her name from a hat.
Gwen MacDonald was astonished when she was told that the decision to transfer her to the private sector after 20 years’ service had been decided by a lottery.
The former South Yorkshire Probation Trust worker received an email from HR manager Angela Tinker confirming that the selection process saw employee numbers “drawn out of a hat by a panel of three.”
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