Rehiring Lisa Rundle, the former Penguin Canada rights manager whose claims of sexual harassment precipitated the ouster of David Davidar as the company’s president, was both practically and ethically “the right thing to do,” says the international publishing giant’s global CEO.
Penguin announced on Wednesday, July 7, that Rundle will return to work “in a few weeks’ time” and “is happy to resume her responsibilities” as the company’s rights and contract director. The news came a day after it was announced that Rundle’s suits of sexual harassment against Davidar and wrongful dismissal against Penguin had been settled out of court.
Penguin chief executive officer John Makinson, in a phone interview with the Toronto Star from the company’s London headquarters, also credited the advice of Penguin Canada publisher Nicole Winstanley in the decision to reinstate Rundle.
“Nicole Winstanley had a very high opinion of Lisa and hoped that we would find a way for her return,” Makinson said. “We thought that this was not only commercially the right thing to do but ethically the right thing to do as well.”
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