Three former colleagues of Manu Levy, who accused the star presenter of NRJ of “moral harassment”which he disputes, won his case on Friday, November 15 at the labor court. The radio station was ordered to pay them more than 300,000 euros in total.
Isabelle Giami, Valentin Chevalier and Aude Fraineau, who demanded the reclassification of their contracts as permanent or, for the third, additional overtime, must also be compensated for the moral damage suffered, according to the ruling.
“It is a big, quite clear and severe victory for NRJ”welcomed his lawyer, Pierre Vignal. “Moral harassment has clearly been recognized”estimated. At the request of Agence France-Presse (AFP), the NRJ group did not immediately react.
“Professional harm”
Cyrille Laporte, a member of the social and economic committee of the NRJ group, who challenged a reprimand received after an attempted dismissal, must also be compensated with approximately 8,000 euros. Another whistleblower, Pauline Goireau, who linked the end of her probationary period at podcast affiliate NRJ to the fact that her partner, Valentin Chevalier, was “complainant”on the other hand, had his requests rejected.
Manu Levy’s former collaborators, in charge of the morning radio show since 2011, criticize him “extreme control” AND “an immense workload”explained Pierre Vignal in April. “Everyone has had their health affected” AND “he suffered damage to his career”he added, stating that the harassment was “the determinant” of his departure from the radio station in 2023.
The host, for his part, “categorically refutes all the facts of which [il est] overwhelmed “. “In thirteen seasons at NRJ, I have not been aware of any complaints that concern me. In the last ten years, Valentin Chevalier stayed eight years, Isabelle Giami five years.”he stressed in April in a statement sent to AFP. Gaël Sanquer, deputy director of music media for the NRJ group, criticized, for his part, the “slate, caricatured and misleading” written by the plaintiffs.
