Sexual harassment: a judgment overwhelms French Football Federation

The motivated judgment of the prud’hommes, of which “Le Monde” has taken note, condemns the FFF in the context of a complaint for sexual harassment filed in 2018 by an ex-employee against the financial director of the Instance.

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It is a decision that should even further tend to the atmosphere, already heavy, at the Paris headquarters of the French Football Federation (FFF). as revealed by the team, The Conseil des Prud’hommes de Paris condemned the proceedings, Friday, October 22, to pay 10,000 euros of damages to an old employee For facts of “sexual harassment” committed by his financial director.

Le Monde has taken note of the motivated judgment of the Prud’hommes Council. In its decision of 9 pages, the court concludes that the ex-employee “suffered facts of sexual harassment on the part” of the FFF Chief Financial Officer and considers that the Federation “did not take appropriate measures”, neither “respected his obligations in the prevention and cessation of the facts of sexual harassment”.

This procedure had been initiated by the former employee in November 2018, which also filed the same year with the Paris prosecutor’s office, a criminal complaint for “sexual assault” and “sexual harassment” against his supervisor. In July 2019, this complaint had been classified without continuation for “infringement insufficiently characterized”, as Mediapart had reported.

“Attitudes and remarks displaced with a sexual nature”

Trainee then Employed in CdD at the FFF, the complainant had “denounced”, in August 2018 with his employer, the facts of “sexual harassment she suffered” from the Chief Financial Officer, as the PRUD. men in their judgment.

At the hearing before the Prud”Homale jurisdiction, in September, she argued “that she had suffered sexual harassment and two sexual assaults on the part of her supervisor without the association FFF taking The measures to prevent these acts “.

These facts are contested by the Federation. At the end of an internal investigation, the Director General, Florence Hardouin, had sent a simple “reminder” to the Chief Financial Officer, and set up “anti-harassment” training.

“In this case, the certificates of long-standing employees are apparent from the financial management (…), the letters of the labor inspectorate and the report of the Hygiene, Security and Conditions Committee work produced by [the young woman] that she suffered in the context of her work (…) Often displaced remarks (“my little darling”) especially on his clothing outfits (“schoolgirl”, ” Short today “), or his makeup, and displaced attitudes (simulation of a kiss, insistent look)”, writes the Council of Prud’hommes.

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