One of the employees says she was compelled to sign an NDA; the other refused
Two women who worked at global software giant SAP have claimed that they were raped by their colleagues while attending after-work events on business trips, and that the HR department mishandled the situation, Bloomberg reported.
The two women shared that these incidents happened in 2018 and 2019, specifically. And they had strikingly similar stories, noted Bloomberg.
They had been out for drinks with colleagues after a work event and they believe that they had been drugged. A co-worker then followed them into their hotel room and had sex with them when they were incapacitated and couldn't consent, reported Bloomberg, citing internal documents. One of these women woke up with her clothes torn, according to a police report, and said she had cuts and bruises from the encounter.
Both women filed complaints to HR within a span of 18 months – HR interviewed the men involved who admitted that they had sexual encounters with the women. The men, however, claimed that the women were drunk or not themselves, according to SAP's own investigations.
However, SAP failed to conclude that the encounters weren't consensual, just that they'd violated the company's "respect" policy, according to the reports.
One of the women said she was compelled to sign an NDA in order to recoup some of her lost pay after a long legal battle with the company on this matter ended in arbitration, Bloomberg reported.
The other woman...
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