After 12 years of legal battle, the agri-food giant was ordered to pay more than 2 million euros to its former director of food safety who had filed a complaint for harassment.
Nestlé will have to pay compensation of two million Swiss francs (2.02 million euros) to Yasmine Motarjemi, the group’s former director of food safety, in connection with a harassment complaint, a Swiss court has ruled, reports this Saturday the daily Tages-Anzeiger.
This decision comes at the end of a 12-year legal battle, Yasmine Motarjemi, aged 67, having sued Nestlé in 2011 following having felt discredited and devalued by the employees of the food group for years.
“We want to close this case definitively”
She was seeking damages for psychological harm that led her to seek work disability at the age of 55 before she was fired by the group in 2010, according to the newspaper.
Nestlé, which has not confirmed the amount of compensation it will have to pay, has decided not to appeal. “We sincerely regret the nearly 12 years of litigation and wish to close this case definitively,” said a spokeswoman for the food group.
