Sira Sylla, former Macronist MP, sentenced for moral harassment

Former MP Sira Sylla, elected in 2017 under the label of La République en Marche, was sentenced on Tuesday September 6 by the Rouen industrial tribunal for moral harassment of a former parliamentary assistant, to whom she owes by elsewhere pay 76,000 euros.

The board “Notes that the multiple SMS sent by Mrs. Sira Sylla” to the complainant “contain repeated threats of punishment, contemptuous remarks, reproaches about his pathology”according to the court decision consulted on the spot by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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Degraded working conditions

“The repetition of these shipments has degraded working conditions” of the complainant “as well as his mental health”. ” Consequently “, the council grants him “the sum of 20,000 euros in damages for moral harassment”. The industrial tribunal, on the other hand, has not “not retained concealed work” requested by the complainant.

The rest of the sum is requested for “breach of security obligation”, ” overtime “, “zero dismissal”severance pay, severance pay and paid holidays.

The industrial tribunal also pronounces the “termination of the employment contract at the expense of Sira Sylla”elected MP in 2017 before being defeated in the first round in June. “The moral harassment of Mr.^me Sulla » to the complainant “is a breach of sufficient gravity to prevent the continuation of the latter’s employment contract”according to the Prud’hommes.

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Counsel further clarifies that the Complainant, “suffering from a major heart disease”, n / A “did not communicate his pathology to M^me Sylla when he was hired because she did not prevent him from working”. The former deputy had reproached him for it.

The parliamentary assistant had been hired on January 9, 2019 and had been off work since September 2021. He was asking for 50,000 euros for harassment and 34,000 euros for null dismissal or, failing that, without cause. M^me Sylla, who could not be reached by AFP on Tuesday, appealed.

On January 29, 2021, already, the prud’hommes of Paris had condemned M^me Sylla for the moral harassment of another parliamentary assistant. According France Blue Normandya third plaintiff was dismissed by the industrial tribunal of Rouen in August 2021.

The World with AFP