A HR manager learned she was not immune after harassment allegations from 30 employees at a French retail store. An investigation found that not only was the director of the store accused of the harassment at fault, but that the HR manager tried to protect the director.
The retail store director was fired, but the “HR manager was also dismissed for misconduct, based on her lack of action against the director’s harassment policy and also based on her breach of her own health and safety obligations,” according to the article.
The HR manager countered in a claim against her employer that she should not have been fired since she did not personally harass the employees, but a Court of Appeals rejected this assertion, noting she was completely aware of the harassment allegations from the workers and that she did not act to stop it despite her role as HR manager.