Harassment | City worker sues former employer over hotel room invitations and harassment

A city worker is suing her former employer for sexual harassment after her boss invited her back to his hotel room to ‘have some fun’ – the Sunday Times reports.

Nathalie Abildgaard, 27, worked for IFM Investors, an Australian fund management firm with an office in London, when she claims her boss, 50-year old Frederic Michel-Verdier, harassed her at a work party in Madrid.

He allegedly told her: “If I was 20 years younger, I would have been all over you”, and suggested that they go to his hotel room so “we could have fun”, before he sent her messages — including one with his room number followed by smile emojis — later that evening.

Michel-Verdier, who is married, denies the allegations. “He said he had no recollection of having sent messages, or the content of those messages,” Amelia McArdle, IFM’s Global Head, People and Culture, said in the document shown to The Sunday Times.