#MeToo: ex-Sanofi em­ploy­ee gets un­fair dis­missal law­suit tossed, Ap­tose inks $125M BET in­hibitor deal

→ Sanofi has found it­self in the mid­dle of France’s #MeToo mo­ment af­ter a for­mer ex­ec de­mand­ed (and ap­pealed when his case was thrown out) a $1.5 mil­lion com­pen­sa­tion al­leg­ing an un­fair dis­missal. Jean-Marc Pod­vin was the French drug­mak­er’s di­rec­tor of press re­la­tions when he was caught sex­ting his as­sis­tant back in 2013. The as­sis­tant — who was on a tem­po­rary con­tract — said she was un­com­fort­able but felt oblig­ed to re­spond kind­ly giv­en Pod­vin’s promise to get her a full-time po­si­tion, ac­cord­ing to the judges in his em­ploy­ment case. An­oth­er col­league re­port­ed that Povdin ex­posed him­self to her in a car. De­clin­ing to com­ment di­rect­ly on the court de­ci­sions, Sanofi told Bloomberg that it “has al­ways tak­en all the nec­es­sary mea­sures to pre­vent sex­u­al ha­rass­ment, to put an end to it and sanc­tion it.”

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