Politics

‘Hired for my looks’: HDC employee alleges sexual harassment

17 Jun 2015, 10:20 PM
Minivan News
This article is by Farah Ahmed
A former employee at the state-owned Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has said she was subjected to sexual harassment by a senior staff who once allegedly told her she had been hired for her looks.
The employee, who had started work at the HDC’s legal department in March, said the company’s human resource manager Mirshan Ahmed had sent her inappropriate text messages and regularly commented on her clothes and her hair.
The harassment began the first week she started work.

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