An American man says he learned a court in the UK had determined
that he was guilty of sexually harassing a woman at a company
conference, and his photo was splashed across a UK tabloid.
Fanelli, who lives in Atlanta, said he felt doubly betrayed:
First because his employer, BMC Software, never told him that a
woman made allegations against him as part of a broad
discrimination complaint she filed in a British employment
tribunal; and second, because the company refused to help clear his
name once the salacious allegations became public.
"I have a legal history now of something that I never did, that
I'm innocent of," Fanelli told The Assoicated Press. "And they (the
company) did nothing to help defend me, so here we are."
The British woman, who worked for a BMC subsidiary, said in a
written statement to the tribunal that during a company conference
in Nashville in April 2008, Fanelli was drunk and put his hand up
her skirt and grabbed her backside.
She also said her boss discouraged her from reporting the
incident, which she described as an example of a pattern of
discrimination. About six months after the conference, she filed an
internal grievance with the British subsidiary, alleging that she'd
been denied accounts and territories because she's a woman. Her
complaint mentioned the alleged sexual harassment by Fanelli.
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