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Webber T

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08 Apr 2019, 21:11

***ual Harassment and Unfair Labour Practice.

I am/was an employee of Tile Africa Polokwane North employed as Design Advisor(Sales) from 2018 October to 2019 February.On day in December 2018 while i was at work in my Branch Manager's office he touched my butt in ***ual manner not by accident,he even commented that I have a firm butt.He also used make ***ual comments before the touching matter occurred and I used to brush it off.The matter was reported to Tile Africa Senior Operations Manager.He came to the store to come ask for a statement from me before he can confront the branch manager about my allegation as they called it.I gave a written statement of whole incident and that is where he confronted the Branch Manager and also promised that he will take up the matter with the HR manager.Internal investigation was done by interviewing staff members and they've put on a lair detector test of which I was never told about it,it was a sudden thing but the Branch Manager new about it in advance.I took the the lair detector test and I was told that he(BM) will take it after me,so I can leave i don't have to sit(BM told me that).The results came a week after,senior operation manager called me on the work landline to give me the results that my results came out negative as ****ruthful).After the results were given to me telephonically on the same call he(Senior Operations Manager) then ask me if there is anything that I want to come clean about and if he can find out that I am not telling the truth there will be consequences,I then told him again that I am telling the truth.When he came for his next visit he(SOM) called me to the office to discuss my failure of the test and what he thinks about it which he told he told me that a lair detector test has never shown the wrong results before in majority of cases,they then told me that if there is anything I am not happy with in-terms of my work i must state it to him so that he can look in to it instead of throwing around allegations of ***ual harassment. I then rep**** to the (SOM) that I have no idea how the lair detector came out as untruthful on my test but all that i know is that I am just merely stating what happened. To cut a long story short, what really left me frustrated was when the (SOM) said that my story does not make sense, because the BM is a married family man so it does mot make sense why the BM would do something like what I reported about.Ever since I reported the matter he(BM) made sure that I don't enjoy my job anymore,he will accuse me for most of the things that goes wrong in the store.After I have realized that the company is not doing enough to rescue our situation I then handed over my resignation as I was not enjoying my stay anymore the BM even started being rude to most clients that were assisted by me.I loved my job and still do but I could not work under the same BM and given the fact that I did ask the SOM to transfer me to the other branch in Polokwane and he did not see the necessity. so to add on my complaint, with all my issues in store another staff member had a fall-out with the branch manager in my store and he resigned but his resignation was withdrawn and he was transferred to the other branch in Polokwane. after I have resigned I called HR to tell about more in detail about the issues I had at store level and my dissatisfaction, I was then told that the matters I have queried about will be tabled again and I will be informed on what they (HR) and General manager have decided on. So last week when I called HR to hear what they have done and decided about my matters she told me that another investigation has been done in store level on some of the issues which I have addressed but when I asked her about the outcome of the investigation which they say they did, I was told that I can not be told what the findings are and yet I am the reason why they did another investigation again after my resignation.

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Tile Africa
Tile Africa's reply11 Apr 2019, 19:03
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Norcros SA is committed to creating a conducive working environment where employees are treated with dignity and are free from any form of harassment, including ***ual harassment. Tile Africa is a division of Norcros SA. We have taken note of this post and will escalate the matter to  Norcros Executive Management for review. The ex-employee will be contacted directly as part of this review.