Employee Relations: The $95,000,000 Dispute
A record lawsuit settlement was awarded by a jury Friday, June 11, 2011 to a former rental store employee for extreme illegal sexual harassment and assault.
Aaron Rental Co. is a national chain and this award takes virtually all of their last year's profits and gives it to the plaintiff.
Her store manager committed gross sexual harassment which eventually escalated to assault. She claims she reported his actions to a Supervisor and called a Company Hotline. The Supervisor did nothing and no one contacted her from the Hotline.
This company did everything wrong.
The Supervisor should have been trained to report her input immediately. The Hotline should have contacted her within a very few hours. Immediacy of response is critical. Speedy investigation and resolution are the only acceptable course of action.
What disastrous effect would such a settlement of only $9,000,000 have on your company? That's a lot of zeroes that take a lot of time to earn.
The full story can be found at http://www.hrlawyersblog.com/.
If you get any hint of sexual harassment at all - please GET HELP. I enthusiastically recommend HelpDeskHR.
Lance
Aaron Rental Co. is a national chain and this award takes virtually all of their last year's profits and gives it to the plaintiff.
Her store manager committed gross sexual harassment which eventually escalated to assault. She claims she reported his actions to a Supervisor and called a Company Hotline. The Supervisor did nothing and no one contacted her from the Hotline.
This company did everything wrong.
The Supervisor should have been trained to report her input immediately. The Hotline should have contacted her within a very few hours. Immediacy of response is critical. Speedy investigation and resolution are the only acceptable course of action.
What disastrous effect would such a settlement of only $9,000,000 have on your company? That's a lot of zeroes that take a lot of time to earn.
The full story can be found at http://www.hrlawyersblog.com/.
If you get any hint of sexual harassment at all - please GET HELP. I enthusiastically recommend HelpDeskHR.
Lance
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