Paul Mortley is a senior HR professional with many years of HR experience in the UK.
Mortley’s tendency to say ‘You was’ instead of ‘You were’ does not negate his HR credentials. However, his HR experience includes many years at Federated Hermes, where Mortley has played a key role in several egregious acts made public at www.hermeshypocrisy.com.
For instance:
Mortley stood by during the harassment and discrimination of an employee who was of a racial minority. Mortley then cunningly delayed the employee’s harassment and discrimination claims so that the time limit to bring a claim would pass.
Mortley and his colleagues misled a new hire, whose father had just recently passed away on another continent, into thinking a short-term role might be made long-term. When the employee emailed Mortley to raise the issue of the misrepresentation, Mortley did not even respond.
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After this employee realised Mortley and his colleagues had led them on for many months when Mortley and his colleageus knew the employee’s mental health was vulnerable due to the employee’s bereavement, the employee went into the company’s HR portal and took three hours of sick leave on a slow Friday afternoon for the sake of their mental health. Instead of being compassionate and supportive, Mortley harassed the employee, over and over again for nearly a week, for having booked the sick leave in the portal but not also directly notifying their supervisor at the same time.
Mortley terminated an employee shortly after the employee blew the whistle on an act of apparent fraud the employee had witnessed. When terminating the employee without notice, Mortley cut off the employee’s private insurance and other employee benefits with immediate effect, even though the employee had a medical appointment scheduled. In addition, on the same day, Mortley removed the employee from consideration for another role for which the employee had applied to work on another team at the company.
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When an employee reported that they were inappropriately touched by a colleague during a department outing, Mortley blamed the victim, saying they should have reported the incident sooner and should have used a different tone when reporting the incident.
When a former employee made a subject access request, which by UK law requires a company to hand over all communications that involve the former employee, Mortley kept withholding communications that involved the employee, even though those communications did not compromise any company secrets.
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The employee was forced to keep asking Mortley to hand over more and more of the required communications, with Mortley sharing more and more, bit by bit, each time. In the end, Mortley never handed over all the communications he was required to hand over by law.
Please note: the creator of this website personally experienced or witness all the allegations made on this website. Nonetheless, the contents of the website have the legal status of allegations, which Mortley and/or Federated Hermes have the right to refute.