EnergyAustralia boss rejects sacked employee's claims of misbehaviour Kate Shea, with her husband Mark leave the Federal Court building during the hearing of Kate Shea versus Energy Australia. THE EnergyAustralia boss accused by a former employee of sexual harassment defended his reputation in court today. Managing director Richard McIndoe, giving evidence in the Federal Court, rejected former corporate affairs director Kate Shea's claims he had sexually harassed younger female employees. He admitted having had a three-year relationship with a female employee while he was still married, but rejected any suggestion he had behaved inappropriately towards any woman at EnergyAustralia. Ms Shea is suing EnergyAustralia for wrongful dismissal, claiming she was fired after complaining she was sexually harassed by chief financial officer Kevin Holmes in Hong Kong in 2010. Ms Shea, 47, has alleged in court she believes she was dismissed because she had blown the whistle on a "culture of sexual harassment" that was "condoned" by senior management at the company. Giving evidence today, Mr McIndoe rejected allegations he had touched a female colleague inappropriately at a staff party in 2006. He also said there was no truth to Ms Shea's suggestion that he had to be followed around by the company's human resources director at the 2010 Christmas party to make sure he "behaved himself." Mr McIndoe told the court he attended the 2010 Christmas party for only about an hour because he had been discharged from hospital only three days before, having had surgery for a malignant cancer in his neck. I was in a great deal of pain ... I did not observe anybody following me around," he said. Mr McIndoe, who became managing director of EnergyAustralia in 2006, denied having employed a woman he had met in a nightclub. And he rejected a suggestion that an angry husband of an employee who had been made redundant had once called him to accuse him of making unwanted sexual advances towards his wife. Asked if he had once made lewd comments about a former energy minister's female chief of staff, Mr McIndoe said: "That's absolutely wrong. "She was attractive and personable but I did not talk about her in those (lewd) terms," he said. The case continues.