Industrial court upholds GLC manager’s sacking for ‘serial’ sexual harassment

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The court says the branch manager should have displayed a greater degree of integrity instead of obnoxious behaviour.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/08/29/industrial-court-upholds-glc-managers-sacking-for-serial-sexual-harassment/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #IndustrialCourt #SexualHarassment #GLC #Manager

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00:00The Industrial Court has thrown out a claim for unfair dismissal brought by a former branch

00:07manager against a government-linked company after he was sacked for sexually harassing

00:12two of his subordinates four years ago.

00:15Court Chairman Eswari Mari concurred with the findings of a disciplinary inquiry conducted

00:20by Amanah Ihtiar Malaysia into nine sexual harassment acts committed in the first six

00:25months of 2019.

00:28The claimant was found to have misconducted himself by attempting to play footsie with

00:32his victims and by touching their cheeks, brushing their hair, placing his hands on

00:37their buttocks, rubbing their shoulders, stalking them and intentionally blocking their path.

00:43Eswari said the company had given the claimant a chance to atone for his actions after the

00:48first act of misconduct by issuing him a stern warning and transferring him to a different

00:53branch, but he did not repent.

00:55Eswari said that as a branch manager, the claimant should have ensured a safe environment

01:00for his subordinates, but he made the working environment toxic through his obnoxious and

01:05intolerable behavior, she added.

01:08She said the company had taken into consideration the claimant's 26-year service, but at the

01:13same time, was obliged to take into account his grave and continual misconduct and the

01:18welfare of other employees.

01:20Dhaneshwar Jareza, FMT News.

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