Legal Question in Sexual Harassment in Ohio

I am a male who works in the food service industry. I sent my general manager the following text message " sorry to bother you, but can you give me a co workers number" he replys " sure its xxx-xxx-xxxx, Its no problem , I dont mind when hot guys bother me" .. He is gay, I am not. The next time we worked together it was rather uncomfortable, a week later i put in my 2 week notice and informed our owners why i was leaving. When i showed up for my next shift, the manager called me into the office and said that i should just go home because he doesnt want me working there anymore, refused to "fire" me in writing and just said that i was no longer needed. The owners transfered me to one of their other stores, but its not working out. Is there anything I persue legally? Thanks.


Asked on 5/21/10, 10:26 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Neil Rubin Neil S. Rubin, Attorney at Law, LLC

You should have notified upper management of the exchange between you and the gay general manager. By quitting and not trying to fix the problem you have substantially weakened any claim you may have had, unless the environment was so bad that the reasonable person would have quit under the same circumstances. From what you state above, such was not the case. One comment does not rise to sexual harassment. Also, there is nothing in the law that requires that you get a "firing" in writing.

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Answered on 5/26/10, 6:44 am


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