Legal Question in Business Law in Pennsylvania

Re: Employer Problem

What kind of composter do you run? Human waste? This sounds very strange. Do you work at a public sewage plant? (I hope that you do not work at a farm...if so, call me).

You haven't posted enough facts here. Is the 'owner of the business' your boss (are you his employee) or are you a subcontractor? Municipal or private sector? What industry? Why would you be composting human waste? My mother has a compost pile but it is limited to banana peels and grass clippings--the human waste part is a bit odd. However, maybe not so odd for a worker at a waste processing plant, in which case, processing human waste is the name of the game.

As to your rights to sue, I don't have enough information yet to render an opinion. In general, you have to have damages to sue. If you are a female receptionist and he made you engage in waste cleanup while male superiors stood by and laughed, I would say that you have a claim; here, however, you have not told us what your normal job duties are. Are you a supervisor with higher responsibility? Is throwing newspaper over the waste so shocking as to rise to actionable conduct? I don't know. If you had to clean out the human waste, that would be worse, no doubt, however note that plumbers do it all of the time. It all depends on the context of your job duties.