An employee is being sexually harassed by her manager and asks him to stop. The manager promises to resign if she doesn’t turn him in to human resources. He doesn’t resign. Instead the employee leaves and files a sexual harassment case against the company and the manager. Eric B. Meyer explores on The Employer Handbook whether simply complaining to the harasser is enough to win the case.
Meyer says even if a sexual harassment claim is deemed valid, the employer can still win if it shows “it exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior, and that the plaintiff/employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the employer or to avoid harm otherwise.”
