Orange Romania lost its appeal against a previous court decision saying the telecom operator had morally harassed a former employee at work.

The Bucharest Court of Appeal dismissed Orange’s appeal against a Bucharest Tribunal sentence from June 2016. The court also ordered the mobile phone market leader to pay moral damages of EUR 10,000 plus EUR 1,800 worth of legal costs, reports local Profit.ro.

In June 2016, the Bucharest Court upheld the request made by Radu Teodor Popescu, who accused his former employer of moral harassment for almost two years. According to Popescu’s lawyer, Orange had asked the former employee to immediately provide medical records to prove his illness to approve his medical leave, while the man was being hospitalized with infusions. Otherwise the man was threatened to be sanctioned.

"The effect of moral harassment at the workplace is suicide,” the lawyer said. The harassment consisted in putting Popescu on the shelf at work.

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