Re: Torchwood--So do they not have ***ual harrassment laws across

Ken Arromdee wrote:

> In article <TaSPj.5972$WU.2343@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> peachy a****e passion  <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>   False harassment claims do.  Same as any other false claims. 
>>Do***enting the actions you've taken to address poor work performance 
>>goes a long way to avoid this.
>>
>>   Some people are total wimps though, and will do anything to avoid 
>>confrontation - lawsuits included.
> 
> 
> That's blaming the victim.  (And make no mistake, if the harassment
claim
> is false, the company is the victim.)  Lawsuits are expensive and bad
> publicity, even for the innocent, and harassment claims are hard to
defend
> against because of how the system is set up.  If a company pays off
someone
> so she won't falsely claim harassment, it's not the fault of the company
> for being wimpy, it's the fault of the blackmailer--and more to the
point,
> the fault of the legal system for being so one-sided that false claims
are
> easy to get away with.


   Sorry, no.  The minute they decide to knuckle under and keep someone 
rather than fire them, they lose victim status and join in on being 
complicit in the system working the way it does.


  If the police knuckled under any time a person said they were going to 
sue they might as well fold up shop and quit, because nearly every dang 
person arrested says it at some point.

   The bottom line is, not every ***ual harassment claim wins, it isn't 
all that impossible.  Yeah, it takes some effort, and yeah, companies 
with big money can choose to pay someone forever rather than go to 
court. Especially if they haven't done what they should to do***ent both 
what they have done to prevent ***ual harassment and what they have done 
to address the employee's performance.

   But go ahead and blame the real victims, the ***ually harassed, 
because there are rules against it that bad guys can use.

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