The Darnytskyi District Court of Kyiv refused to satisfy the claim against EPAM DIGITAL LLC in the case of recognizing the fact of mobbing, collecting moral damages and compensation for the time of forced absenteeism.
The Darnytskyi District Court of Kyiv refused to satisfy the claim against EPAM DIGITAL LLC in the case of recognizing the fact of mobbing, collecting moral damages and compensation for the time of forced absenteeism.
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Mobbing (bullying) is a systematic (repeated) long-term intentional actions or inaction of the employer, individual employees or a group of employees of the work team, which are aimed at degrading the honor and dignity of the employee, his business reputation, including for the purpose of acquiring, changing or terminating his labor rights and obligations, which manifests itself in the form of psychological and/or economic pressure, in particular with the use of electronic communications, creating a tense, hostile, offensive atmosphere towards the employee, in particular one that forces him to underestimate his professional suitability.
Mobbing can be: latent and overt; individual and group, as well as chronic. Having survived one colleague, the mobber is taken as a new victim; there are also vampire bullies who are mainly interested in the process of bullying, and not at all in the result in the form of the dismissal of a colleague or subordinate.
The plaintiff asked the court to recognize the fact of mobbing, recover moral damages, and compensate for payments for the time of forced absenteeism.
The defendant in the case was EPAM DIGITAL LLC. EPAM SYSTEMS was involved as a third party without independent claims.
As dev.ua previously reported, one of the company’s specialists (as dev.ua was informed by the company) filed a lawsuit against EPAM DIGITAL LLC, a third party — EPAM SYSTEMS LLC, for recognition of the fact of mobbing, recovery of moral damages and compensation for forced downtime.
This is the IT specialist’s second attempt to file a lawsuit. In April, the court dismissed the plaintiff’s application due to shortcomings in its content.
EPAM dev.ua reported in advance: «The company’s specialists are undergoing training on the code of corporate ethics, which contains rules for interaction between specialists, as well as between the company and the team, and provides for mandatory compliance with legislation, which includes, in particular, the inadmissibility of mobbing. Any discriminatory manifestations or discriminatory forms of psychological influence are unacceptable, which the company plans to prove in court in response to a lawsuit by one of the specialists.»
The court decided to dismiss the claim in full on January 26, 2026. The decision will enter into force after the deadline for appeal has expired, unless an appeal is filed.
An appeal may be filed with the Kyiv Court of Appeal within 30 days from the date of the decision being pronounced. If the parties to the case were not present at the time of the pronouncement, the period shall be calculated from the date of receipt of a copy of the decision.
