Charity staff bullied for 10yrs

A CHARITY worker who subjected colleagues to a decade-long bullying campaign has been sanctioned for her actions.

A tribunal found that Rosemary McLaughlin, an outreach manager for Sight Scotland Veterans in Edinburgh, had spent ten years belittling co-workers.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) tribunal heard that she picked on a number of co-workers, including mocking two colleagues for not using a comma properly in a sentence.

McLaughlin, who left the charity in 2020, was also found to have left a voicemail on the phone of another worker making fun of their profile picture on a work account.

The SSSC also found that due to her failure to respond in a timely manner to other staff over financial funding for service-users, services had to be delayed for those in need.

The care watchdog said she had caused staff to feel ‘bullied, unsupported and belittled’ and marked her registration with a two-year warning.