Legal Question in Sexual Harassment in Tennessee

Sexual Harrasement in the workplace

I recently resigned from a job that I had been employed at for 7 years. My superior started making sexual advancements toward me and I felt very uncomfortable. He made remarks about my breast and other things. He then started asking me to meet him and even agreed to pay me what time I would lose for not working. I was unable to do my job for him having me come into his office numerous times during the day. Everyone noticed this and started referring to me as ''his girl''. It became very humiliating to me because I was constantly talked about by my fellow employees. He turned a friendship into something very ugly and I am very upset over this. After I turned in my resignation he repeatedly called me from a company cell phone begging me not to quit and even went to the extreme of saying we could just forget about what he had asked. When I contacted Human Resource and told them he had been calling me he said it must have been somone else in the office. The cell phone was assigned only to him and no-one else. I could not allow myself to go back to this company to work because I felt I would be given a hard time. Please advise me on what I need to do. If I bring a lawsuit against him it will also be against a coorporate company.


Asked on 11/07/04, 9:16 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
James R. Becker, Jr. Becker Law Firm

Re: Sexual Harrasement in the workplace

If your company had a sexual harassment policy that included the ability to make a complaint and you did not follow that policy, you do not have a good basis for a lawsuit. However, this is dependent on the policy and its wording, none of which is present in your question. You need to take your policy and sit down with an attorney to discuss your situation. If you would like to contact us, my email is [email protected].

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Answered on 11/08/04, 10:04 am


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