‘Shameless’: fired Shanghai man who tried to kiss, touch woman colleague on Paris business trip, says being in ‘capital of romance’ aroused him
- Man grabs woman’s wrists, ankles as she tries to repel Paris hotel room advances
- Pressure mounts for tougher legal sanctions against sexual harassment at work, school in China
Growing public awareness about sexual harassment at work in China has led to the emergence of fresh details in a case involving a man who was fired for asking a female colleague for a kiss on a business trip to France.
The man was fired for his behaviour by a Shanghai company after he tried to justify his actions by claiming he made the approach because “Paris is the capital of romance”.
New details about the 2016 case were revealed by the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions on its official social media account on January 18. The federation also took the opportunity to spell out what constitutes “sexual harassment”.
The man, surnamed Wu, grabbed a female colleague’s wrists and ankles in a hotel room after she rejected his advances.
After returning to Shanghai, he was dismissed by the company for violating the codes of conduct specified in the employee handbook.
Two months later, Wu applied for labour arbitration and demanded compensation of 620,000 yuan (US$87,000). That bid failed, as did a later attempt to sue the company.