Legal Question in Employment Law in Michigan

I am a Front of House Manager in a small restaurant. The owner is the other manager and makes all final decisions for his restaurant. He has cut my hours down to nothing and I am drawing underemployment due to this. I walked into work yesterday to find out that our head chef had quit last week. My boss (the owner) never informed me of this, however, I came to find out the reason the head chef had quit was that one of his cooks approached him with a harrassment issue she had with another cook. The victim was given a graphic letter of sexual harrassment nature by another cook and was very uncomfortable with it. She had brought it to the head chefs attention and decided the next day to take action so the head chef approached the owner of the restaurant with the issue at hand and the owner did not want to take action against the offender. The head chef quit because he did not want to be part of a company that supported this type of behavior.

Two questions, since I learned of this from a second party and not the owner am I liable for this?

Also, I no longer want to be part of a company that supports this type of action if I quit will that be just cause for unemployment?


Asked on 10/02/10, 11:55 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Timothy Klisz Klisz Law Office, PLLC

No and no. Managers are not personally liable if acting on behalf of an employer. Quitting is just that, making one not eligible for unemployment. Kliszlaw.com. Tim Klisz

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Answered on 10/07/10, 6:22 pm


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