Manager found guilty of sexual harassment let off with warning
21 Jun 2015, 9:43 PM
Ismail Humaam Hamid
A manager at the state-owned Hulhumalé Development Corporation (HDC) has been found guilty of sexually harassing a female employee, but has been spared with a warning.
The HDC’s human resources manager Mirshan Ahmed was accused of sending inappropriate text messages to an employee who had joined the company in March.
He had suggested she was hired for her looks and told her he would penalize her when she did not respond to his messages.
According to newspaper Haveeru, Mirshan admitted to sending the inappropriate texts at a review committee.
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