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drwexhttp://verdict.justia.com/2012/09/04/costly-mistakes
You can read this column on two separate but meaningfully related cases of gross workplace harassment. In one case, a New York State Assemblyman finally got some measure of punishment for years of repeated abuse of subordinates. Why he's not in jail for multiple counts of criminal sexual assault is beyond my comprehension.
In the other case, a Cuban Jewish autoworker had to endure 3+ years of racism, death threats, and vandalism at his (Chrysler) workplace. He's finally gotten some measure of recompense in the form of a multi-million dollar punitive verdict against a company that did nothing to respond to his documented complaints but the question of why a multi-national major corporation would allow this kind of situation to go on so long or get so out of control is baffling.
If there's any sliver of good in this, it's that we have a big fat reminder that anti-harassment isn't just a "women's" issue; it's a people issue and it affects everyone. Women sure get a bigger rash of shit than a lot of other folk but someone somewhere really needs to be wielding a much bigger clue-by-four and bashing some heads with it. *grump*
You can read this column on two separate but meaningfully related cases of gross workplace harassment. In one case, a New York State Assemblyman finally got some measure of punishment for years of repeated abuse of subordinates. Why he's not in jail for multiple counts of criminal sexual assault is beyond my comprehension.
In the other case, a Cuban Jewish autoworker had to endure 3+ years of racism, death threats, and vandalism at his (Chrysler) workplace. He's finally gotten some measure of recompense in the form of a multi-million dollar punitive verdict against a company that did nothing to respond to his documented complaints but the question of why a multi-national major corporation would allow this kind of situation to go on so long or get so out of control is baffling.
If there's any sliver of good in this, it's that we have a big fat reminder that anti-harassment isn't just a "women's" issue; it's a people issue and it affects everyone. Women sure get a bigger rash of shit than a lot of other folk but someone somewhere really needs to be wielding a much bigger clue-by-four and bashing some heads with it. *grump*
