The French Football Federation has been ordered by the Paris Labor Council to pay 10,000 euros in damages for acts of “sexual harassment” on a former employee, reveals the newspaper L'Equipe
this Friday.
The complainant, trainee then hired on a fixed-term contract at the FFF, had filed a complaint in 2018 for "acts of continuous sexual harassment" and for "two attempts at sexual assault" committed, according to her statements, by her supervisor in the financial department , Marc Varin.
The FFF to a call
In July 2019, the Paris prosecutor's office decided to dismiss this complaint due to "insufficiently characterized facts". The former employee then brought the case before the industrial tribunal, which relied on an investigation by the labor inspectorate carried out in November 2018 to render their decision. The authors of the investigation report had underlined "the behavior going well beyond the conventions governing the relations between manager and subordinates by using allusions, remarks and gestures with sexual connotations in a repeated way" on behalf of the financial director, recalls
L 'Team
.
The members of the industrial tribunal ruled that the complainant had indeed "suffered acts of sexual harassment by Mr. Marc Varin (the financial director)", and that the FFF had failed in its obligations "to prevent and terminate facts ”.
The Federation, which has not yet received notification of this decision, told the daily that it "will appeal this decision" if it is confirmed.
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