Quirky Question # 82: I am the HR director for a mid-sized company. A number of years ago, one of our employees complained about sexual harassment from a senior executive in the Company. We investigated and found corroboration for a...
Quirky Question # 67: We have a sexual harassment problem at our company. I’ll spare you the grim details but let’s just say it’s an ugly situation, involving several members of management. No physical contact or assaultive behavior but some...
Quirky Question # 56: Our company is committed to eliminating sexual harassment. We have a well-defined sexual harassment policy that is included in our employee handbook. We also have conducted training sessions on a bi-annual basis to ensure our employees...
Quirky Question # 32: I am an attorney in the Law Department of an advertising agency. I recently learned in a roundabout way that one of our female employees is a motorcycle enthusiast. For the last few years, she has...
Quirky Question # 30: We are a large, national, medical device company. Over the years, we’ve adopted personnel policies to provide appropriate guidance to our workforce and to comply with federal and state laws. We have a well defined and...
Quirky Question # 14: One of our employees discovered fortuitously (by Googling his own name) that a co-worker down the hall has been posting messages to a Web-blog, in which he identified the employee by name and made graphic, negative...
Quirky Question # 12: Our company employs a lot of minors. We have a policy prohibiting sexual harassment. It is written for our work force as a whole and is not tailored toward the high school students we employ. A...
Quirky Question # 5: I read your Quirky Question # 4. Unlike your last reader, I am not in our company’s Human Resources Department. But I am the attorney within our Office of the General Counsel with responsibility for addressing...
Quirky Question # 4: I am an HR Representative. One of my duties is to take complaints regarding workplace discrimination, including sexual harassment. One of our female employees recently complained to me that she feels as though she is being...
Quirky Question # 1: We recently terminated one of our executives “without cause.” Under his employment contract, we are obligated to pay one year’s severance for terminations without cause. In contrast, we have no obligation to pay him anything if...
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