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  • 03-24-2005, 05:41 PM
    Justin
    Harassment In The Workplace
    I'm writing this on behalf of my mother. This may sound kind of far-fetched but I assure you, it's 100% legit. My question in all this is whether she has the grounds to take legal action if her employment is terminated, or even if it's not just based on the harassment she is currently receiving on a daily basis.

    The company is a machine shop, couple hundred employee's. She is the buyer for this company. The president of the company has no purpose in this story, but his son who is the V.P. and his wife whom is the Human Resource manager does.

    A few months ago, my mom had a voicemail transfered to her extension. It was the VP's wife (human resource manager) and a very sexual conversation to a operational manager in the place. His name is mentioned in, as well as hers. They talk in detail that shows the VP's wife is in fact cheating on him with this guy. Well, the operational manager, decided to save the conversation to his voicemail but transfered it to my mom's instead (the extensions are very close). She let two trusted people she works with listen to it. When she told me about it, I told her to record it on a tape recorder, then remove it and ignore it as if nothing happened. Which she did.

    However, since it happened, working there has become very stressful to her. The VP's wife, on every holiday since that point, gets everyone a gift in the office and seems to rub it in around my mom who she suddenly gets nothing for. This is just an example of the things that have led me to believe they know my mother received this recording, and they are trying to get her to quit. There are many other examples that are going on (and if you need more details of other things I can get them) to make my mother feel harassed but i'm afraid I can't quite remember them at the moment. My mom's father just past away last year, and her mother is now in a nursing home as of recently. She's just gotten on stress medication, and this childish behavior at the workplace is contributing to it. There are other harassment suits that have been filed against this place, including sexual harassment. Anyway, if their goal was pushing her into quitting, it's starting to work. My mother has worked there for nearly 5 years, and she's never gone through the kind of crap they are doing now. Some nerve considering that she was kind of enough to ignore the message instead of telling the lady's husband.

    If any further information is required for any of you to come to a conclusion to this, just ask.

    Thank you very much for your time.


    EDIT: Forgot to add this, which is important. The human resource manager (the vp's wife) has not contacted my mother in regards to her yearly review as well. Yet everyone else has gotten theirs. Just another little thing that's added on to a pile of issues.
  • 03-24-2005, 08:17 PM
    aaron
    Possible Harassment
    The problem with your account is that it is all very speculative. And the worst harm you recite is that your mother didn't receive a Christmas present from the VP's wife. Now, you indicate that a lot of other stuff is going on, but it is hard to tell from what you have posted if what you describe would qualify as harassment, let alone if it would be actionable.

    Your mother may be well-served to discuss this matter with a plaintiff-side employment lawyer in her state, including discussion of how she might be able to document any unlawful retaliation or harassment she may be suffering.
  • 03-25-2005, 06:49 AM
    Justin
    True, and while I would never push her to go to court without much more reasoning than the above. She's under fear that she's going to get terminated one way or another. Whether these two people find a way to get her fired, or make it so it's untolerable to work there.

    I'll try to get more info on specific things.

    But I mean, it's been gifts on every holiday since, in which she then rubs it in her face to the other employee's (who've also taken notice to this). I understand that it's not much to base it in, it's just frustrating that she's stuck in this crap when all she tried to do was avoid causing problems.

    Thanks for the response, i'll update when I have more info.
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