Intimate touching deemed sexual harassment
A Public Health Ministry fact-finding committee has concluded that a senior official sexually harassed his subordinates.
Assadej Rattanaworaprasert, a 40-year-old division head at the ministry’s Office of the Permanent Secretary, will therefore face a disciplinary probe for grave disciplinary offences.
An inquiry will also be held to establish why Assadej’s direct supervisor failed to take action despite knowing about his inappropriate behaviours.
According to the fact-finding committee, Assadej has admitted to having touched his female subordinates but claimed he only did it to tease them, not for his sexual gratification.
