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A cheesecake cafe worker has won more than 20,000 after complaining that working with the door open made her cold. Leila Ayad, who worked at Whipped in Covent Garden, London, claimed her managers insisted on leaving the door open to encourage customers inside. But because the door was left open even in winter, temperatures inside the cafe dropped to 12C meaning it was colder than the Health and Safety Executive's guidance that suggests temperatures at work should be a minimum of 16C,
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