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Article: If you grab the honey, you better have the money: an in-depth analysis of individual supervisor liability for workplace sexual harassment.
- Article from:
- Ave Maria Law Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Meet Jane Doe. Jane is employed as a controller by a small corporation. She is the only woman in an eight-member finance department. Jane works directly for the company's chief financial officer ("CFO"). The CFO has been with the company for some time and manages it with an "old boys' club" mentality. The men in the finance department frequently make lewd jokes, obscene gestures, and offensive comments toward Jane. Not only is this behavior tolerated, but the CFO himself frequently engages in the unwelcome, sexually charged conduct. As a result, Jane, the only woman in the department, feels extremely threatened. After following the appropriate procedures set forth in the ...