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27 August 2015
Long-time recruitment executive John Callagher wants to publicly thank his industry peers and colleagues for their support following the death of his wife Della two-and-a-half years ago.
Thu, 27 Aug 2015
Callagher recently spoke exclusively with Recruiter about his life since his wife of 27 years died of food poisoning from a pub Christmas dinner.
“So many people have been fantastic and supportive,” said Callagher, whose career has included tenures at firms such as Kelly Services,
SpenglerFox, Grafton Recruitment, Antal International and Alexander Mann Solutions.
When his wife died, Callagher was chief executive at life sciences talent consultancy RSA Group. “I would most like to thank the people from RSA, certainly the Stephens family [RSA owners] were magnificent and all the staff.”
Callagher is less pleased with Mitchells and Butlers, the pub firm that owned the Railway Hotel in Essex, where Della contracted the food poisoning, their legal team and insurers. “This whole case has been treated like any average insurance claim,” he said.
“It was one of the worst days of my life, when we reviewed a formula of when someone dies, how many hours they would have done cooking and ironing, walking the dog, etc.”
On 28 July this year, M&B CEO Alistair Darby met with Callagher in person and “apologised personally and on behalf of M&B. He [Darby] also agreed to expedite matters around some legal issues”. However, at press deadline, Callagher said he was waiting to see how matters would progress.
FROM SEPTEMBER 2015'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE
Long-time recruitment executive John Callagher wants to publicly thank his industry peers and colleagues for their support following the death of his wife Della two-and-a-half years ago.Callagher recently spoke exclusively with Recruiter about his life since his wife of 27 years died of food poisoning from a pub Christmas dinner.
“So many people have been fantastic and supportive,” said Callagher, whose career has included tenures at firms such as Kelly Services,
SpenglerFox, Grafton Recruitment, Antal International and Alexander Mann Solutions.
When his wife died, Callagher was chief executive at life sciences talent consultancy RSA Group. “I would most like to thank the people from RSA, certainly the Stephens family [RSA owners] were magnificent and all the staff.”
Callagher is less pleased with Mitchells and Butlers, the pub firm that owned the Railway Hotel in Essex, where Della contracted the food poisoning, their legal team and insurers. “This whole case has been treated like any average insurance claim,” he said.
“It was one of the worst days of my life, when we reviewed a formula of when someone dies, how many hours they would have done cooking and ironing, walking the dog, etc.”
On 28 July this year, M&B CEO Alistair Darby met with Callagher in person and “apologised personally and on behalf of M&B. He [Darby] also agreed to expedite matters around some legal issues”. However, at press deadline, Callagher said he was waiting to see how matters would progress.
