{"id":5218,"date":"2018-12-07T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ted-baker-boss-takes-leave-of-absence\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:16:23","slug":"ted-baker-boss-takes-leave-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ted-baker-boss-takes-leave-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Baker boss takes leave of absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Breaking News image\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7A23\/production\/_97176213_breaking_news_bigger.png\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Fashion chain Ted Baker&#8217;s chief executive Ray Kelvin is to take a voluntary leave of absence amid allegations of harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an online petition launched by employees accused 62-year-old Mr Kelvin of inappropriate comments and behaviour, including &#8220;forced hugging&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Baker said it had appointed a law firm to conduct an independent external investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Chief operating officer Lindsay Page has been named acting chief executive.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46489021\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion chain Ted Baker&#8217;s chief executive Ray Kelvin is to take a voluntary leave of absence amid allegations of harassment. Last week, an online petition launched by employees accused 62-year-old Mr Kelvin of inappropriate comments and behaviour, including &#8220;forced hugging&#8221;. Ted Baker said it had appointed a law firm to conduct an independent external investigation &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}