BNP Paribas SA must pay a senior banker it fired following a newspaper report he’d demanded sexual favors from a female colleague, a half a decade after the French bank let him off with just a warning and then promoted him.
The u-turn to dismiss Aurelien Gressier at the height of the Me Too movement in 2017 came too late and violated French disciplinary rules, the Paris court of appeals said in a judgment last month. Five years earlier, the bank only issued him a warning him when a female colleague complained.
