Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/31
By: Sunrise Huang and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) A Farglory Group subsidiary in New Taipei has been fined

Photo courtesy of New Taipei City Labor Affairs Department

NT$200,000 (US$6,340) for not properly handling a case of female-on-female sexual harassment within the company, and it pledged to strengthen employee training on related regulations.

New Taipei’s Labor Affairs Department fined Farglory Retail Management & Service Co., Ltd. (遠雄流通事業) on Monday after a female employee filed a complaint against the company with both the Labor Affairs and Social Affairs departments.

According to the Labor Affairs Department, the woman said she complained to her superior three times about sexual harassment by a female co-worker who allegedly made unwanted physical contact with her, followed her home and expressed love for her by phone, text messages, e-mail and handwritten notes.    [FULL  STORY]