Corporate governance advisory firm Protiviti has reached a settlement with former employee Sandra Millar after she sued for £150,000, alleging that the company failed in its own governance regime.

Millar had accused Protiviti, formed from Andersen’s risk consulting business, of failing to give staff health and safety training, operating overcrowded offices and providing badly designed workstations.

Millar, who was hired by Protiviti as a public sector internal audit expert, had said that the firm’s corporate governance processes were ‘minimal or non-existent’.

This week, the Tribunal Service confirmed to Accountancy Age that a hearing between the two parties scheduled for October had been cancelled following a settlement.

Protiviti declined to comment, while lawyers for Millar also said that they could not comment due to legal reasons.

The firm was formed from the risk and internal audit division of Andersen US in 2002, and now employs 2,900 across the world.

Protiviti presents itself as ‘a leading provider of internal audit and business and technology risk consulting solutions’.

The case has been an embarrassment as the company sells itself as a governance adviser.

The firm had lined up former Arthur Andersen tax accountant Robin Broughton as its legal representative for the case.