Florida Sexual Harassment Law
Q: What if *not* enjoyable to all? What then?
What if six months later one employee decides
the sexual innuendo of another employee was
too much to be born and sues *the company*
for not having put a stop to the environment
which gave rise to such an innuendo?
I want to see such a case go to court and
be won, then we'll talk some more, okay?
A: If they ever go to court (and mostly they don't), then my understanding is that it is a coin toss who is going to win. There's a suit against Butler University right now, filed about a year after the fact. The Provost of the University, and close friend of the President was boss over a woman hired in to be director of computing and info services. Apparently he, married, was stricken with her and hit on her over the course of about a year---to the extent of trying to arrange a vacation in Florida for her so they could tryst and doing all kinds of things like showing up to shovel her driveway when the snow fell. She apparently complained about him, was told to keep quiet about it, nothing was done for awhile, she compained again, and then he was "honourably discharged" from his position. The university now faces a big suit since it is alleged