ThosePublic management in Geneva –Crisis to Human Resources of TPGs: Justice seized
The director, suspended after suspicion of irregularities, resorted to the administrative chamber.
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The director and her assistant were suspended during the investigations.
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The fire is not extinguished within Geneva public transport (TPG). The human resources director seized justice against her sidelining, pronounced at the start of the year. But the administrative chamber refused to suspend this measure: the current survey on potential financial irregularities must be done without its presence in the company.
In January, the director was released from her obligation to work and was cut her computer access overnight and access to the premises of the TPG. In question? Anonymous reports, in the form of screenshots of the wage management software.
Non -compliant payments
Transmitted to the new director Lionel Brasier, these messages show payments in favor of the director of the director, responsible for the administrative management of staff and the supervision of time management and wages. “They suggest that the appellant granted payments” in violation of legal rules, says the Chamber. According to our information, it would be vacation paid in salary.
In her appeal, the director regrets that she was ordered to remain silent, but that a press release was distributed to the staff. She notes that the approach is “quite strangely in the context of a complaint that she had filed a few days earlier against an administrator”.
In February, the director proposed to regain service, which was refused. “The necessary checks could not be carried out in their presence (Editor’s note: she and her assistant)the risk of collusion was concrete and it was necessary to carry out their suspension temporary ”, indicate the judges.
Two audits
Since then, two audits have been rendered: the first relates to human resources processes (the service suffering from sub -ffectives and having experienced absenteeism up to 14%). A second, external analysis this time was carried out on the reports of irregularities.
TPGs have also refused to suspend, as the Appellant asked, the treatment of her complaint against an administrator of the TPG, “given the accusations that the latter contained and the possibility of having to take measures to protect his personality”.
For the administrative chamber, the Appellant does not undergo any economic damage during its suspension. The good conduct of investigations, too, justifies its distance from the company. His request was therefore rejected. The internal process is undergoing its course. The Public Régie specifies that “taking into account the issues linked to this situation, it was decided to set up an operational reinforcement ad interim to human resources”.
Known precedents
These tensions follow an already eventful period. In 2021, 19 employees had seized the Cantonal Office for the Labor Relations Inspectorate (OCIRT), denouncing the methods of the former HR manager, which had been pushed towards the exit.
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Chloé Dethurens has been a journalist in the Geneva section since 2019. She has been writing for the Genève tribune since 2007.More info
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