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Expensive typo. An employee who desired to e-mail an inappropriate joke to only a single recipient accidentally pressed the wrong button, sending the off-color joke to the company's entire workforce. The employer made the employee send a follow-up e-mail apologizing to the workforce. Two months later, during a company downsizing, an employee sued for a hostile work environment and used the e-mail as evidence. The suit also cited the practice of several employees to end their day by looking at the latest daily swimsuit model at a new website featuring various bikini styles. | |||
| Honey, here's my stuff. The president of a company was being threatened with a sexual harassment suit by one of this employees. The president decided to transfer most of his assets into his wife's name in order to avoid being personally sued and subjecting his personal assets to any possible claim settlement made against him. The employee later sued the president for sexual harassment. The suit named both the president and the president's wife because of her ownership interest in the president's assets. These assets were later subjected to the settlement provisions. | ||||
In California: BSR Insurance Services CA Lic # 0E72686 |
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| The warehouse loneliest. An African American employee of a barge repair and painting firm complained to management that some of his coworkers were using racial slurs and jokes. His supervisor transferred him to an inside warehouse position at a reduced hourly rate stating that it would be better for him to work alone rather than be exposed to those workers. The employee later sued for discrimination and retaliation for reporting the discrimination. | ||||
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