"I'll speak the truth when you get me on the stand, in a court."
-SA Senior Samsung employee Johannesburg South Africa, still employed at Samsung.
This comment of casual indifference resonated profoundly with whistleblower June Bellamy. However, to speak the truth while in the employ of Samsung has harsh implications – as she discovered through firsthand experience.
Although the South African Constitution allows for freedom of speech, respect, and human dignity, June Bellamy was denied these rights while employed at Samsung.
When she blew the whistle on a director in the Service Division at the Johannesburg Samsung Head Office in June 2017, she expected Samsung would protect her by following its global whistleblowing policy. Instead, within two weeks of filing her report, her identity was leaked to the same person she had spoken out against.
June repeatedly sought internal support from Samsung auditors, HR staff, and HR Directors. Then, nearly a year later, she begged the African Samsung President for protection. Instead, her appeals were met with complicit silence or threats.
Instead of being protected, she was gaslighted, bullied, colluded against, ostracized, mobbed, and subjected to the other toxic tactics routinely employed against whistleblowers.
Samsung Korea even went so far as to instruct the SA auditors to actively seek the person behind the alias emails they were receiving about the director she reported against, which was, in fact, her.
Despite June having the foresight to whistleblow across multiple avenues trying to maintain as much anonymity as possible, all her efforts to secure their 'promised protection' were unsuccessful.
In 2018 June was dismissed from Samsung South Africa after management created and delivered her a poor performance status. She has since been battling them through a court of law.
- June Bellamy v Samsung - Labor Court
- June Bellamy v Samsung – Human Rights Court
Even after Samsung threatened to bankrupt her if she didn’t take a settlement deal.
After five years of fighting , June is seeking public support after facing legal fees, mental suffering, hardship, and being bullied by those meant to support her.
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