| Posted on 09.24.2012 14:00 by |
In the dust stirred up by Dany Bahar, we managed to miss the fact that DRB-Hicom also dismissed two senior executives from Lotus for "gross misconduct." One was the 6-year head of legal resources and the other had 17 years in as the head of human resources. These employees are now taking Lotus to an employment tribunal saying that they were dismissed unfairly, were harassed, and had to endure sexual and racial discrimination by the new Lotus parent.
From the report, the two fired executives underwent "intense interrogation sessions" after DRB-Hicom took over and started investigating the actions of Bahar. They are also claiming that the management company is more interested in "Malaysianizing" the company rather than fixing it.
One lawsuit is a random happening, but to get three lawsuits for very similar cases seems like a trend to us. Maybe Bahar isn't all wrong in this entire thing. The man is certainly at fault for using corporate money like it was his own personal Monopoly bank, but maybe his termination was a little bit less on the "up and up" as we anticipated.
All of this is coming straight on the heels of DRB-Hicom announcing that it is in talks to bring in a foreign partner to help clean up Proton Holdings Bhd, which includes Lotus. We'll keep an eye on this to see if it may negatively impact the talks that are going on between the Malaysian company and its potential foreign partner.
More Execs Jump on the Lotus-Suing Bandwagon originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 24 September 2012 14:00 EST.
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