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Fires Alibaba’s manager who was allegedly abandoned a female staff

Shanghai: Giant e-commerce China Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has fired managers allegedly sexual abuse of a female employee and will set a policy to prevent sexual harassment, executive head Daniel Zhang said on Monday.
The manager – in the retail unit of Alibaba City, which offers food delivery from local supermarkets – “has been fired and will never be hired again,” said Zhang in a memo published on the Alibaba intranet seen by Reuters.
The man to management was “intimate action” with employees when he was drunk, said Zhang in the memo, added that the police were investigating this problem.
Reuters cannot reach individuals to comment.
“The Alibaba group has a zero tolerance policy on sexual errors, and ensures a safe workplace for all our employees is Alibaba’s top priority,” said a company spokesman told Reuters when asked about memo.
During the weekend, a female staff posted a 11-page account in the Alibaba Intranet where he said the supervisor and clients who were sexually attacked him while on a business trip, and the manager failed to take action.
Utas associated with the following incident was ranked between the top trends in Weibo, Microblog Twitter-Esque China, which has fallen with discussions about the #metoo anti-sexual abuse movement following a celebrity sex scandal last week.
Zhang said the president of the City retail unit and the head of human resources had resigned to the incident, and that the officers of the Head of the Alibaba’s head had “received demerit”.
Investigation of other individuals referred to in the victim’s account was underway, Zhang added in the memo.
Alibaba will conduct training throughout the company for prevention of sexual harassment and launching channels for staff to report incidents, Zhang said in the memo.
This will also issue formal anti-sexual abuse policies and tolerance.
Zhang also said Alibaba firmly opposed “ugly culture of forced drink”.
This memo detailed the victim’s account about the incident, where he remembered the superiors ordered him to drink alcohol with coworkers at dinner on a business trip.
“Apart from gender, whether it is a request made by customers or supervisors, our employees we are empowered to reject it,” Zhang said in the memo.
“This incident is an insult to all Alibaba employees.
We have to rebuild, and we must change,” he said.

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