A woman worker at a Bradford campaigning organisation has told how she was 'demeaned, ashamed and intimidated' when she was asked to vac an office carpet, a tribunal has heard.

The woman also told the Leeds hearing how she was singled out to make tea and coffee for visitors during meetings.

She is claiming sexual discrimination and victimisation and has alleged she was sexually assaulted by the director of the organisation.

Tribunal chairman John Hepworth has ordered that the woman and any other person affected by her allegations must not be identified because of the allegation of a sexual offence.

Speaking on the first day of the hearing, the woman told how three days after she started her job, she was asked by a man there to 'do him a favour.'

The woman said: "He came into my office on a morning and said: 'Will you do me a favour?'

"I looked at him and he said: 'Will you hoover my office?' I was shocked. I said: 'Why doesn't the cleaner do that?' He said: 'No, it will show me how flexible you are.'

"This made me feel demeaned, ashamed and intimidated."

The woman told how later the same manager asked her to make drinks for visitors to a meeting.

"I asked him why he'd asked me to make drinks and why he'd singled me out for this purpose," she said.

"He said: 'Are you calling me a male chauvinist pig?' He raised his voice and shouted at me.

"I was being singled out for treatment."

Bosses at the organisation deny the claims, saying everyone helped out arranging the refreshments from time to time.

The woman went on to claim that, since she made her allegations of sexual discrimination, she had since been victimised by bosses.

She claimed that on February 9 she was sexually assaulted by a director of the organisation.

The alleged incident took place during a role-playing session between the woman and the director.

After the session was finished, she alleges that as the pair went back to their seats, the director put his right knee into her inner thigh as they were going to sit down.

The director denies the claims and the hearing continues.

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