At RATP, sexist violence persists

Despite the company’s “zero tolerance” politics, some women still refuse to speak.

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Gender Jokes, Ided Gestures … “That’s like RATP, have to do with,” said a Human Resources Manager (HR) to Camille (Modified First Name), Metro Station Officer, who complained. Camille could not do with the “it’s okay, my little pizzaks?”, “Here my harem”, etc. that his leader pronounced. “Women laughed,” she remembers. Not her. Engaged at RATP in March 2016, she said nothing, being in probationary period.

Until the joke of too much, in October 2016. “As I was on the phone, he tries to stick to me from behind by miming a sexual act,” says the young woman. She talks about her HR manager. The chief, cropped, modifies a time his behavior, but quickly resumes his old habits. Then begins the reprisals. Camille learns that some of his colleagues threaten to get physically to her. His leader makes usually inform him of his schedule of the next day.

The young woman will be transferred in February 2017, losing premiums in passing. But she always meets her stalker. In November 2017, the HR department advises him to stop sick leave. On his return, she is mutated, but she still crosses him and always. Its sick leave succeeds, the pressure of the management is more intense so that it returns, on pain of losing its allowances.

Wednesday, October 20, supported by the Solidarity Union RATP, the Officer, who has not been able to resume work since June 2019, will ask the Council of Prud’hommes of Paris the judicial termination of his work contract. of the employer and the Condemnation of RATP for “violation of his obligation of security”, “sexual and moral harassment” and “discrimination”. It should have waited until 2019, when Camille Catherine Guillouard alerts, the patroness of the RATP, for an internal investigation to be finally committed. On the initiative of RATP solidarity, a rally of support will take place on the day of the hearing on the call of South Rail unions and the CGT of the Flanders Bus Center in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis).

The internal investigation concludes “professional failures” of his leader, but not to sexual harassment. The leader will not spend on a disciplinary council until June 2020, and goes out with a sanction of a month of layoff without pay. For its part, the investigation of the labor inspectorate in March 2021, qualifies the facts of sexual harassment. The inspector also raises the existence of a “sexual ambience harassment”, which exposes the collective to obscene remarks and jokes. The Defender of Rights notes “that the employer missed his obligation to prevention and security”.

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