Slater and Gordon salaries leak: What went wrong

On Friday morning an email purporting to be from the outgoing chief people officer at law firm Slater and Gordon landed in all staff inboxes. The email contained a vitriolic “handover” and an attachment containing the salaries of all 906 employees.

Communications expert Peter Wilkinson says Slater and Gordon is failing in the handling of its current email crisis on almost every front, with “confusion and poor culture” the key takeaway.

The email was purportedly sent by outgoing chief people officer Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen from a private Gmail account. It contained detailed knowledge of internal HR and management issues, couched in unprofessional language and including character attacks. The attached salary information was reportedly mostly accurate, according to sources within Slater and Gordon.

Slater and Gordon have said the email is a fraud and referred the matter to police.

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