State challenges payout to official sacked over sexual harassment claim
The attorney general’s office has filed a case at the high court to overturn a lower court order to compensate a top government official sacked for sexual harassment
29 Aug 2016, 9:00 AM
The attorney general’s office has filed a case at the high court to overturn a lower court order to compensate a top government official sacked for sexual harassment.
The civil court had ruled in November that Mohamed Fahmy Hassan, former chair of civil service commission, be paid MVR421,733 (US$27,000), an amount in salary and benefits he had lost after being removed by the parliament four years ago.
Ahmed Usham, spokesperson at the AG office, said that they filed an appeal a few months after the civil court ruling. “We believe that the compensation amount is unjust,” he said, adding that a more reasonable amount would be MVR171,733 (US$11,137).
In his tenure at the CSC, Fahmy had allegedly touched a female staff member on her stomach saying, “It won’t do for a beautiful single woman like you to get fat.” A parliamentary committee found him guilty and removed in November 2012.
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