ZURICH (Reuters) – Nestlé will have to pay compensation of two million Swiss francs (2.02 million euros) to Yasmine Motarjemi, the group’s former director of food safety, in connection with a harassment complaint, a decision has been a Swiss court, the daily Tages-Anzeiger reported on Saturday.
This decision comes at the end of a 12-year legal battle, Yasmine Motarjemi, aged 67, having sued Nestlé in 2011 after having felt discredited and devalued by the employees of the food group for years. She was seeking damages for psychological harm that led her to seek work disability at the age of 55 before she was fired by the group in 2010, according to the newspaper.
Nestlé, which has not confirmed the amount of compensation it will have to pay, has decided not to appeal.
“We sincerely regret the nearly 12 years of litigation and wish to close this case definitively,” said a spokeswoman for the food group.
(Report John Revill; French version Claude Chendjou)
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