This is a decision that should further strain the atmosphere, already heavy, at the Paris headquarters of the French Football Federation (FFF). As had revealed The team, the Paris industrial tribunal condemned the body, Friday, October 22, to pay 10,000 euros in damages to a former employee for acts of “sexual harassment” committed by her financial director.
The world has taken note of the reasoned judgment of the industrial tribunal. In its 9-page decision, the court concludes that the former employee “ has been subjected to acts of sexual harassment by “From the financial director of the FFF and considers that the federation “Did not take the appropriate measures”, or “Complied with its obligations in terms of prevention and cessation of acts of sexual harassment”.
This procedure was initiated by the former employee in November 2018, who had also filed the same year, with the Paris prosecutor’s office, a criminal complaint for “sexual assault” and “sexual harassment” against her supervisor. In July 2019, this complaint was dismissed for ” insufficiently characterized offense ‘, as reported Mediapart.
“Inappropriate sexual attitudes and remarks”
Trainee then employee on a fixed-term contract at the FFF, the complainant had “Denounced”, in August 2018 with his employer, the facts of “ sexual harassment she sufferedt ”on behalf of the financial director, as recalled by the industrial tribunal in their judgment.
At the hearing before the industrial tribunal in September, she argued “That she had suffered sexual harassment and two sexual assaults by her hierarchical superior without the FFF association taking measures to prevent these acts”.
These facts are disputed by the federation. At the end of an internal investigation, the general manager, Florence Hardouin, sent a simple “call to order” to the financial director, and set up “anti-harassment” training.
“In this case, it emerges from the certificates of long-standing employees in the finance department (…), letters from the labor inspectorate and the report of the health, safety and working conditions committee produced by [la jeune femme] that she suffered in the course of her work (…) often inappropriate remarks (“my little darling”) in particular on her clothing (“schoolgirl”, “it’s short today”), or her makeup, and inappropriate attitudes (simulation of a kiss, insistent gaze ) “, writes the industrial tribunal.
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