My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: MA
Recently a employee has indicated that they were harassed at work by a higher ranking employee. The higher ranking was concerned and asked if everything was ok as the employee had mentioned they had a doc appt in the AM for tests. The employee continued (uncoerced) to explain the whole situation in detail. He was not asked to share details.
A "dumb and uneducated" response was made by the higher ranking official and said "are you okay is this like disease/AIDS or something? What can we do to help". It was uneducated and innocent response by the manager who had no idea as they are not medical.
What is the statue of limitations of this in MA to be sued? Is there any recourse? Is this even "harrassment"?
This was not a reoccurring question or topic and was not "intentional" to offend them. The Employee complained to HR weeks later after the complaining employee took part is jokes concerning the "uneducated idiot response".

