A woman has received a £150,000 tribunal payout from recruitment firm HR Group after her former boss allegedly offered £1,000 for every weekend she spent with him.

Patricia MacKinnon received £17,000 for injury to feelings, £9,000 for personal injury and £4,000 for aggravated damages. The remaining £120,000 was for lost earnings.

Jack Parkinson (pictured), chairman of Kent-based HR Group, allegedly began a campaign of sexual harassment against MacKinnon after he bought a 51% stake in MacKinnon’s former company, Bromley Appointments, in 2002.

A tribunal heard that Parkinson then forced her to take a salary cut when she rejected his advances. Parkinson also said MacKinnon’s future in the company was insecure if she did not start a relationship with him, the tribunal heard.

MacKinnon, who now runs another business, Compass Personnel, also in Bromley, received her compensation more than a year after an employment tribunal found she had been sexually harassed and unfairly dismissed.

She told Recruiter she had been “distressed” by the conduct of HR Group, now renamed HR GO, during the case. A statement from HR GO said it was disappointed with the outcome.