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My wife's employer threatened all employees with termination if they were
ever late. Then he set the clock back several times so that they appeared
late as a practical joke.
This wouldn't be so bad except one of the girls in the office just had her
husband commit suicide (leaving her and a 2 year old). This girl is on some
major antidepressents right now and going through a bad time (therefore,
it's totally not funny).
I think it needs to stop. Are there any court cases to back up that this
constitutes harrasment?
I'm going to write the chairman a letter and I'd like something to cite.
Thanks.
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Bill Adcox
Adcox Management, LLC
adcoxmanagement@comcast.net
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:50:17 -0600, "Bill Adcox"
<adcoxmanagement@comcast.net> wrote:
My wife's employer threatened all employees with termination if they were
ever late. Then he set the clock back several times so that they appeared
late as a practical joke.
This wouldn't be so bad except one of the girls in the office just had her
husband commit suicide (leaving her and a 2 year old). This girl is on some
major antidepressents right now and going through a bad time (therefore,
it's totally not funny).
I think it needs to stop. Are there any court cases to back up that this
constitutes harrasment?
I'm going to write the chairman a letter and I'd like something to cite.
Generally, for harassment to be illegal, it must be based on some
protected class of employee. For example, an employer harasses
someone because she's a woman or because she's black or because she
was born in Iran. Harassment like you describe, although stupid and
obnoxious, is probably not illegal.
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Bob Stock, California Attorney
Nothing I've said should be relied on as legal advice.
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My wife's employer threatened all employees with termination if they were
ever late. Then he set the clock back several times so that they appeared
late as a practical joke.
This wouldn't be so bad except one of the girls in the office just had her
husband commit suicide (leaving her and a 2 year old). This girl is on
some
major antidepressents right now and going through a bad time (therefore,
it's totally not funny).
I think it needs to stop. Are there any court cases to back up that this
constitutes harrasment?
I'm going to write the chairman a letter and I'd like something to cite.
A good check and balance against this type of conduct is that his
unemployment premiums could go through the roof if he kept firing people.
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:47:56 GMT, "Ray Gordon" <ray@cybersheet.com> in
misc.legal, wrote the following:
some
A good check and balance against this type of conduct is that his
unemployment premiums could go through the roof if he kept firing people.
Not to mention his health insurance premiums go through the roof for all
the stress he causes his other employees, who fear coming under the axe
next. Unfortunately, as Mr. Stock indicated, merely being sadistic to
one's employees is not discrimination in a legally protected sense.
I gather there's no union involved: if so, complaints should be made
through them for unconscionable management practices, which would
violate most collective bargaining agreements. So, my comments assume
an employment "at will" situation.
If the employer does fire the woman whose husband died (or any employee
affected by his little games), she/they should definitely look to filing
an appeal with the unemployment compensation board of her state, wages
and compensation board, employee relations agency, the better business
bureau, etc. and make it quite clear the type of harassment which takes
place by the employer.
Once the employer gets a reputation within state/business agencies as
sadistic to his employees, he usually also finds himself frozen out by
these agencies, and sometimes by other outlets for new employees (like
employment agencies, who will often research high turnover companies
before sending new employees to them)
The employer sounds like a control freak, and the only way to fight
those effectively is to leave them under your own volition. That
usually takes them back a notch, because their reputation usually
precedes them and they have a hard time finding replacements.
HTH.
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg, J.D.
DISCLAIMER:
Not a practicing attorney, and no attorney-client relationship
is created. This response is for discussion purposes only. It
isn't meant to be legal advice. If you wish legal advice, seek
out an attorney in your own state who is familar with your
state's laws and applications thereof.
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their reputation usually
precedes them and they have a hard time finding replacements.
When I was new in town and didn't know any better, I accepted a job with a
place that I later found out almost always had to run an ad for several weeks
to get any applicants at all, because of their reputation.
We tell our friends and they tell their friends, and pretty soon, everyone
knows it's a bad place to work.
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