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  • 01-26-2010, 12:51 PM
    JimmyInPA
    Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    My question involves defamation in the state of:

    what recourse or advise would you give to a woman who is a Supervisor at her job and has been fasely accused by a worker of being racist towards this person and also accused of calling them the "N" word when they ABSOLUTELY did not show any racism or call them that name,it's total fabrication,also the company does not seem to be standing behind the Supervisor probally not wanting any bad press and not wanting to get their hands dirty, really pathetic that this type of thing exists
    thanks in advance for anyones advice & help
  • 01-26-2010, 01:05 PM
    Dogmatique
    Re: Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    The lady's recourse is to make sure HR knows what's going on and make sure her hands are completely and utterly clean.
  • 01-26-2010, 02:56 PM
    JimmyInPA
    Re: Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    The woman doing the accusing already filed a complaint with the company and there was a investigation, so it's pretty much the accussers word against the Supervisors,they want the Supervisor to take a class on how to deal with employees in the workplace and treat all fairly or something to that effect and also if someone else accuses her of something she risks disiplanary action or termination,I know the Supervisor and in NOWAY would she ever call anyonw the "N" word and she is not racist in the least, she actually has alot of black coworker friends through the years so it's kind of mind blowing this person is accusing her of this, so the bottom line is she wants to clear her name of this BS, what to do ?
  • 01-26-2010, 03:02 PM
    cbg
    Re: Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    Y'know, we have a great many freedoms in this country, and sometimes one person's freedoms are mighty inconvenient to someone else.

    If the other person sincerely believes that your friend is a racist and that she used unacceptable language, even if that person is 100% mistaken he has the right to state his opinion.

    About all your friend can do is cooperate fully in the investigation.
  • 01-26-2010, 04:41 PM
    JimmyInPA
    Re: Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    it's just a shame that someone goes through years of college and builds themselves up to a nice position and someone can come along and make false allegations and jepordize that persons career, I would think there could be something you can do, would this be a slander or defamation case situation ?
  • 01-26-2010, 04:51 PM
    cbg
    Re: Falsely Accused of Racism at Work
    Not at this time; your friend has not, at the present time, suffered any damages.

    Not at any time unless she can prove in a court of law that the other person deliberately or negligently made statements of fact (not opinion - fact) that they knew or should have known were false (not a difference of opinion - false) and that as a direct result of these statements your friend suffered actual damages. The burden of proof would be on your friend, not on the other person.

    Do YOU want the government restricting what opinions YOU are allowed to state? This country was built on a slightly different basis than that.
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