- California jury awards $1M verdict to raped farm worker
A California jury awarded nearly $1 million in damages to an immigrant farm worker who claimed her employer forced her to quit after she reported that her supervisor raped her in the fields. The case was one of the first farm worker sexual harassments suits to go to trial in ......
- Avoiding liability for sexual
harassment.
Through investigations of sexual harassment complaints are an employer's best tool for minimizing liability. A San Francisco jury's award of more than $7 million to a legal secretary harassed by a male partner in a law firm should serve as a wake-up call to employers throughout the nation. The message: ......
- Legal nightmare.
Employees take Employers to Court For several years now, the business community has been beset by product liability suits, "deep pocket" settlements, and soaring insurance rates. Now, to add to the legal misery, a growing number of employees are suing their employers. Many of these lawsuits involve two basic principles: ......
- How to Avoid Retaliation Claims
HEADNOTE A retaliation claim could cost you big bucks. Here's how to keep it from happening to you. Retaliation claims are the fastest-growing type of workplace complaint.1 Courts have assigned huge monetary awards in such cases. For example, a Texas jury awarded $10 million in punitive damages to five workers ......
- Guidelines for conducting effective sexual harassment
investigations.
It's happening! There sits Maryanne in tears across from your desk telling you that for the last two years her foreman has been sexually harassing her. Now, she has finally come forward with a formal complaint. What do you do now? The way you respond in the next few minutes, ......
- Creating fraud awareness.
Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Tyco ... these names bring to mind images of executives in handcuffs. They represent bankruptcies and billions of dollars lost by investors, retirees, and lenders. Speaking at the 13th Annual Fraud Conference and Trade Show of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Sherron Watkins, stated that, "In ......
- Strategize!
Employment litigation has become an increasingly serious problem, due in large part to recent media attention to huge jury awards that employment cases have garnered. In addition, the wealth of information about employment laws available on the Internet has made employees much more savvy about employment issues. The risk of ......