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Mark222
Hi,
I'm a minority shareholder in a Dutch organization. The board consists of 3 members. During the summer of 2024, after I announced to my co-founders in an informal way that I wanted to leave the company, there have been reports of transgressive behaviour in the organization, directed both to three of our employees at the time and to one of our "end customers".
The abuser was one of the board members. I got to know about these behaviors from the employee I cooperated with the most in the company: as soon as the news reached me, I offered support and tried to paint the whole picture. I updated the other board member, who was present personally at the event where these abuses have been first reported. My employees told me his reaction was not what they had expected but initially I trusted his goodwill in coming to a resolution. I was not present during any of the abuse because I worked remotely on other company activities.
During the six months after the initial report, I kept faith in his interest to investigate internally what had happened. I allowed him time to confront the abuser, giving him the benefit of the doubt. With time, however, it was clear he had no interest in doing that. An external investigation with a confidential counselor was started by him only after our business partner got to know about the incidents through my goodbye e-mail. Here it's worth mentioning that:
it took the organization two days to delete my goodbye e-mail;
meanwhile I had received an unfriendly call to invite me "to delete it, it's not beneficial for any of us";
it eventually took 7-8 months for any steps in my dismissal to happen;
Fast forward to today and the investigation with the counselor is still ongoing: I've asked to be involved in the design process of any measures to prevent, mitigate and resolve such behaviors. I am not getting any updates from the board member who commissioned the investigation with the counselor. I want to stay involved with the process. The counselor won't update me directly because he is bound by contract to update only the commissioning party.
How should I behave in this situation? My biggest fear is that the intention is for everything to be swept under the carpet as soon as I formally leave. I feel betrayed.
Kind regards,
Mark
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