Beijing, December 12, 2012 : .Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba fired an employee who had accused her boss, and her client, of sexually assaulting her during a trip she was on after drinking.According to BBC, the dismissal letter stated that she “spread lies that have damaged the company’s reputation”.
In August, the employee made her claims public and claimed that the company failed to act on July’s incident.
The boss of the client was fired but not charged with any criminal offenses.Police are still investigating the client.
According to the government-backed newspaper Dahe Daily, she was terminated late last month.The newspaper published a copy her letter of termination.
The letter said she had spread false information about the assault and about the company not handling the case, and this “caused strong social concern and had a bad impact on the company”.
The employee was quoted as saying: “I have not made any mistakes, and certainly will not accept this result, and in the future will use legal means to protect my rights and interests.”
Alibaba has not yet commented on her dismissal.
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