Posted on 04/21/2002 12:02:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:52:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A federal appeals court astounded lawyers last week with a ruling advising a company it has a "moral obligation" to financially aid employee Linda Gray even though the company defeated her sexual-harassment claims in court.
"I have never seen a gratuitous comment like this," said Dan Fuller, general counsel for the Louisville-based Genlyte Group, which includes among its 5,500 employees Miss Gray's Lightolier division in Fall River, Mass.
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If that ever becomes law I'll quit!
Sì signore, probabilmente.
to his client, who he said visits a therapist and is too emotionally disabled to work.
Honestly, somebody please tell me, help me understand, tell me if I'm wrong. How pathetically weak minded do you have to be to be permanently emotionally disabled, unable to work, because some idiot kept making passes at you. How could this woman have possibly functioned in society being this incredibly weak? My wife sees this and says "I would have just kicked him in the nuts and it would have been over with." She can't understand either.
I don't know why they haven't fired the idiot who got them into this mess in the first place.
I have low tolerance for sexual harrassment, either actual from the offender (he's fired) or perceived where there is none (she's fired).
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