Legal Question in Personal Injury in Tennessee
Employee harassing supervisor
Can an employee be sued for making false accusations to upper management and the pubic? I have an employee who continues to say thens which are false to customers coming into to our counter. She has filed several false claims with our EEO and I have been instructed not to discipline her. These false statements are causing severe medical and emotional problems for me. My physician says: ''Sue''
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Employee harassing supervisor
What are the nature of the accusations? You say they are false, but it is just your word against hers? Can you offer objective proof the statements are false?
Assuming you can objectiely prove the slander, you would have to show damages. Pain and suffering are hard to quantify. If you have seen a doctor about your suffering, you could charge the cost of the visit to the doctor as part of your damages -- but that is not going to be very much.
If you are truly being slandered at work, then you have a cause of action against your employer as well as this woman.
If you are being accused of sexual harrassment, that will be very hard to disprove one way or the other.
It may be time for you to bite the bullet and consider moving to a new job where you are not in mental anguish.
Mike Guth
http://riskmgmt.biz/prose.htm
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