Sexist jokes, inappropriate gestures … “It’s like that at RATP, you have to deal with it”, a human resources manager (HR) replied to Camille (first name changed), a metro station agent, who complained. Camille could not do with the “Are you okay, my little bitches?” “, the “Here is my harem”, etc. that was pronouncing His boss. “The women laughed about it”, she recalls. Not her. Hired at RATP in March 2016, she said nothing, being on probation.
Until the joke too many, in October 2016. “While I was on the phone, he tries to stick to me from behind by miming a sexual act”, says the young woman. She talks to her HR manager. The chef, reframed, changes his behavior for a while, but quickly resumes his old habits. Then begins the reprisals. Camille learns that some of her colleagues are threatening to physically attack her. His boss gets into the habit of informing him late of his schedule for the next day.
The young woman will be transferred in February 2017, losing bonuses in the process. But she always rubs shoulders with her stalker. In November 2017, the HR department advised him to take sick leave. On her return, she is transferred, but she crosses paths with him again and again. Her sick leaves follow one another, management pressure is more intense for her to come back, on pain of losing her indemnities.
Internal investigation concludes “professional misconduct” on his part, but not sexual harassment
On Wednesday October 20, supported by the Solidaires RATP union, the agent, who has not been able to return to work since June 2019, will ask the Paris Labor Council for the judicial termination of her employment contract at the fault of the employer and the conviction of RATP for “violation of its safety obligation”, “sexual and moral harassment” and “discrimination”. It was indeed not until 2019, when Camille alerted Catherine Guillouard, the boss of the RATP, for an internal investigation to finally be initiated. At the initiative of Solidaires RATP, a support rally will take place on the day of the hearing, also called for by the SUD Rail unions and the CGT of the Flandre bus center, in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The internal investigation concludes “Professional misconduct” on his own account, but not to sexual harassment. The chief will not pass in the disciplinary council until June 2020, and leaves with a sanction of one month of layoff without pay. For its part, the investigation of the labor inspectorate, in March 2021, qualifies the facts as sexual harassment. The inspector also notes the existence of a “Ambient sexual harassment”, which exposes the collective to obscene comments and jokes. The defender of rights notes for her part “That the employer has failed in its obligation of prevention and safety”.
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