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Indecent proposals led to sack without redress

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A BANK executive who says she lost her job after her boss made indecent proposals is outraged she cannot find legal redress.

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Although the Equal Opportunities Commission was set up last month, it has not started to listen to sexual harassment complaints - so alleged victims like Mary Chan (not her real name), 30, have no legal redress.

Ms Chan says she lost her job soon after her sexual harassment complaint was dismissed by her employer, a triple-A rated foreign bank.

She had been working as a middle manager (finance) for a year, but says a couple of months into the job her European boss, a senior manager, sexually harassed her.

'It started off with things like asking me out on dates and then he told me his wife was very jealous of me and I had been blacklisted by her.

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'He told a client I was his girlfriend,' she said.

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