The president of the scandal-hit CBI has admitted he does not know if the business lobby group can win back trust while setting out a series of shortcomings at the organisation
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He set out its response to the findings of a review, conducted by a law firm, into its handling of the affair and governance at theLawyers at Fox Williams said there were a few instances that the senior leadership had awareness of allegations made prior to their publication by the Guardian newspaper.
Mr McBride admitted the CBI's"most grievous" error was"trying to find resolution in sexual harassment cases when we should have removed those offenders from our business". "In assessing performance, we paid more attention to competence than to behaviour. Our HR function was not represented at board level, which reduced escalation paths to senior levels of the company when these were most needed."
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