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    Default Boss Was Told of Sexual Harrassment , He Did Nothing About It for 12 Years

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: I live Nevada.

    The story is long and rather complicated.

    In a nutshell a lot of employees complained , to the boss, that a certain individual was sexually harassing them.

    The boss did nothing. When too many employees at one property( the boss oversees operations at three properties) complained of sexual harassment from that certain individual , the boss would move that individual to another property.

    The boss has been moving this sexual harasser from one property to another property and from one shift to another for the last 12 years. The sexual harasser would sexually harass people which ever property he went to.

    What kind of legal trouble can the boss get into for not stopping the sexual harassment and allowing it to happen for so long? What will the EEOC do to the boss?

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    Default Re: Boss Was Told of Sexual Harrassment , He Did Nothing About It for 12 Years

    The EEOC can't do anything unless a harassee files a claim. And if/when a harassee files a claim, the defendant of said claim will not be the boss, it will be the company. Whether the company does something to the boss as a result of being investigated by the is entirely up to the company.

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    The EEOC will do nothing to the boss, and neither will the law.

    The recipients of the adverse action by the law, in the form of the EEOC, will be the company as a whole, not the boss directly.

    When the boss was put on notice, the company was put on notice by legal definition. While the law does not dictate what means the employer must use or who must do what or who the boss must tell or what the company is required to do, if someone in management is notified of illegal harassment, then the company is required to make it stop. If the boss does not take effective action to do so, then the company as a whole is liable.

    Exactly what the EEOC will do is uncertain. It might be a fine. It might be a warning. It might not. But the action the EEOC takes will be at the overall company, not the boss directly.

    That does not mean, however, that the company might take exception to having been put in this position, and take their own action against the boss. If I found that one of my managers had managed to make the company liable for a sexual harassment claim or six, he'd be fired so fast his shoes would smoke on the way out the door. What your employer will do, I have no idea.

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    I think OP is posting homework case studies. See all his other recent threads.

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