The Casa Grande sector belonging to the Broad Front and led by the leader Constanza Moreira published a statement in which it lamented “the slowness” of the Broad Front to process and resolve the necessary corrections that guarantee the rights of the victims” who were harassed by the former mayor of La Floresta, Nestor Erramouspe.
“We emphatically repudiate the actions of the mayor of La Floresta in the face of complaints of workplace harassment and gender-based violence, both from municipal officials and councilors,” they add in the statement where they also clarify that Errampouspe’s resignation was a “sensible decision “so as not to harm the institution of the Municipality, while the investigations continue”.
Declaration of the National Coordination of Casa Grande this weekend. pic.twitter.com/RvEmWMXxrT
— Casa Grande – FA (@CasaGrande_FA) October 31, 2022
Erramouspe resigned after the administrative investigation that marks that “I would have acted improperly” with behaviors that “could fit into a workplace harassment or mobbingand gender-based harassment”.
The acting instructor Noelia De Mello arrived at that conclusion after obtaining eleven statements from those involved, to which was added the support of the Legal Services Directorate of the commune, as can be seen from the 24 pages of file to which she accessed. The Observer.
De Mello consulted nine officials, the administrative secretary of the municipality and the mayor himself. The acting instructor noticed that “all the complainants are women” to link workplace harassment with gender reasons.
Two of them reported complications during periods when they were breastfeeding. “They set up a room for me in his office to express milk, but since there is so much work, it is impossible for me to stop to do it(…) I was forced to do it because it was very inconvenient to leave homework or perhaps not schedule people at that time to express milk. I work alone and nobody can cover me“said one. The other maintained that Erramouspe told her to “do it in the bathroom”, and that later he forced her to make up for the half hour she had set aside for it.
