Fired after refusing the sexual advances of his boss: a secretary will receive $100,000

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Amélie St-Yves

Friday, 16 February 2018 17:18

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A secretary who refused the sexual advances of his boss, will receive nearly $ 100,000 for psychological harassment.

Anne Navion has worked for a boss who demanded sex with the promise of advancement and a salary increase.

She had been hired as a secretary-receptionist in January 2011 in Ivcom inc. of Lévis. His boss, Mladen Bilic, was put to him to comment bawdy and to ask him questions intimate.

The two people have had a dozen of sex in 2012. She says feeling stress, while he claims that she was consenting.

Anyway, she said “no” to her boss in January 2013. “You don’t want to lose your job eh?”, he says at this time, according to the judgment.

It is then submitted to the advances.

The employee was sunk in depression in the months that followed, and then in November 2013, Mladen Bilic has again threatened to terminate her employment if she refused his advances.

Hit

A month later, while he was trying to take her breasts, she shouted, “it is enough!” and has squarely hit in the head.

Despite this clear rejection, the boss kept him touching the buttocks and breasts when he had the opportunity.

In the summer of 2015, he was advised that it would be a promotion or a salary increase if she began to sleep with him.

Depression

Anne Navion has left the work for a sick leave in July 2015, during which time she was terminated, and she filed a complaint for psychological harassment.

The accused did not deny before the tribunal as having made threats if it was not part of his fantasy, or even to have left him dangling a salary increase if she responded to his advances, one can read in the judgment.

The court ordered the employer, Ivcom inc., to pay close to $ 100 000 to the victim for not having done anything to protect it. It must be said that the president and sole shareholder of the company was the defendant in this case.

She encourages women now to break the silence.

“My goal was that one believes me, and I was raw. I won the fight of my life,” she said, a few days after the judgement of the administrative Tribunal of labour that condemns his ex-employer Ivcom inc. of Lévis to pay him 99 926,48 $.

Mladen Bilic has refused to answer questions from the Newspaper.