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An awful lot of evidence supporting that I should easily have won my case against Entain, can be found in the Tribunal transcript of witnesses' cross-examination.

There is as well the witness statement of my colleague Dennis Dorland who suffered exactly the same bullying as I did, by the same people and at the same time. Mr Dorland too suffered from mental illness as a result of the bullying at work. This witness statement will be added here soon.

The HR Department's investigation in team leader Susana Martin

During the 26 February 2020 Employment Tribunal Hearing about Jurisdiction, I mentioned the results of GVC/Entain's HR Department's investigation in team leader Susana Martin's Dutch and Scandinavian teams from end of January, early February 2018. This investigation proved that Susana Martin was an incompetent person with a very significant lack of leadership skills. I pointed out that this investigation gave a good insight in Susana Martin's personality. I will now make a more in depth analysis of this.

In the following numbers I do not use my own HR interview. 9 people, beside me, were interviewed. Jalila Kessissa had only been in the team for a few days but already mentioned the bad atmosphere in the team in her interview. I do not use her interview in the following numbers as she spent most of the time in the training class room, away from the team, in those days.

Of the eight people that were employed for a longer period of time the following comes up from these interviews;
- 8/8 say there is a bad atmosphere in the team with lots of tensions.
- 6/8 say that Susana Martin lacks leadership skills.
- 0/8 have something positive to say about Susana Martin's professional attitude.

Specifically for the Dutch team;
- 5/5 have seen bullying behaviour in the team.
- 4/5 people were victims and/or witnesses from gossiping by Susana Martin (1 refused to answer the question).
- 3/5 people mention the high personnel loss in the team.
- 2/5 people report problems caused by Susana Martin with their holiday requests.

It is significant here that GVC/Entain disclosed Yousri Amrani's interview almost three years after the start of these proceedings. They have been purposely hiding this important evidence.

The following extracts are statements from the interviews with the members of a team divided by internal struggles not acted upon by a weak and ineffectual team leader.

1. Hamid Ringelberg
- Lost a lot of people in the team compared to other teams.
- A lot of time we know more than the team leader, she is not performing how she should.
- Team leader not acting upon concerns of team members, he doesn't trust her.
- Team leader talks behind people's back, making fun of them.
- Blocking the progression of Yousri Amrani by talking badly about him to his new team leader in VIP.
- Holidays blocked at the last moment.
- Irregular monthly assessments.
- Terrible atmosphere in the team.
- Dutch team members are leaving much faster than other teams.
- Team leader needs to be reassessed or replaced. It's like bullying.
- Annual leave 3 months ahead should be able to approve, even after flights booked get asked to cancel.

2. Kieran Vandenhoeck
- Tense atmosphere in the team, even after Yousri left.
- Thinks it is too late to sort out problems in the team, that should have been dealt with a long time ago.
- Complains about Jose Luis looking for mistakes in other peoples' work, he was therefore afraid of making mistakes.
- Refuses to comment on inappropriate comments made by the team leader.

3. Sara Ekman
- Team leader forgets to do some evaluation meetings that were planned.
- Sees tension in the Dutch team.

4. Mikkel Kristensen
- He sees extreme tensions in the Dutch team.
- He doubts that the team leader has the strength or leadership to stop the issues in the team, it should never have gotten that far.

5. Stef van Veen
- Because of the team leader's approach everything is up for discussion.
- In the team people feel not appreciated and valued.
- There was tension in the team from day one.
- He noticed that it was the team leader and Martijn van der Vechte against the rest.
- Lots of tensions between team leader and Yousri Amrani whom he calls a fiery character.
- Hamid is angry that conflicts are not sorted out.
- Tensions between Yousri Amrani and team leader and the whole team was dragged in it.
- Team leader should be more in control of the team, Sometimes she is not professional by slagging off team members in front of each other.
- He doesn't think it will ever work between Jose Luis Aznar and team leader, there is too much anger between them.

6. Jalila Kessissa
- Only a few days in the team.
- Is already aware that there are difficulties in the team.

7. Jose Luis Aznar
- Thinks that the team leader is not doing her job.
- Complains of not having regular evaluation meetings with team leader.
- Team leader has issues with almost everyone. Lots of people left because of her.
- Team leader should have intervened sooner to sort out problems.
- He offended Noemie Levy from HR, she felt that he had used offensive language against her.
- In he beginning he felt that he was the team leader's favourite. Then she gossiped about him being gay.
- Team leader has a lack of knowledge, he thinks she should not be team leader.
- Holiday approvals can take several weeks, he doesn't understand why.
- He says that he cannot stand me and doesn't want to work with me.

8. Jonas Dobel
- Some days something happens with the Dutch team and then the day can be really bad.
- Hamid and Jose Luis have problem with Dennis and Bart.
- Team leader can't put her foot down and stop the issues, isn't strict enough.
- Team leader lacks knowledge.
- Most people in the Dutch team have a problem with the team leader because she can't answer questions on difficult cases.

9. Dennis Dorland
- He didn't feel much support from the team leader.
- The team leader can make or break you in any type of way in evaluations.
- Team dynamic is not good, team leader is not doing her job.
- He feels that he is not taken serious by the team leader and department manager.
- The team leader is bullying him to make him leave.
- She is talking behind his and other people's back and try to make him look bad.
- Christopher Thomsen had some conflicts with the team leader.
- Jose Luis Aznar is a big complainer.
- The team leader also had problems with another member of the Danish team, two members of that team left because of the team leader.
- The solution would be a new team leader.
- He is leaving the company because of the team leader.

10. Yousri Amrani
- The team leader badmouthed him and others
- People left because of the team leader
- The team leader gave Martijn van der Vechte preferential treatment
- The team leader was confrontational and told him to piss off
- The team leader had a fight with the him
- If the team leader does not like you, she makes your life miserable
- She has to ask Martijn van der Vechte about products and processes

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