Comment by DanBC
7 years ago
Employers have a duty of care to protect employees from harm in the workplace, and that includes protection from sexual abuse.
A lot stuff that counts as sexual harassment in the work place is not a crime.
You don't sue people who perpetrate crimes, you prosecute them. You're asking the victims of sexual harassment to persuade police to investigate and prosecutors to prosecute, and we know that they won't because we know they already don't.
You're also saying that no action can be taken without meeting the very high criminal burden of proof - that this thing happened beyond all reasonable doubt. That's going to leave harassers free to continue.
Maybe you just meant that sexual harassment is unlawful and employees have an existing remedy through civil courts, but this would be pisspoor management. If your company employs people who reduce productivity of others in the workforce by sexually harassing them it's in the organisation's best interest to manage those people so they stop the harassment or leave the company.
> Employers have a duty of care to protect employees from harm in the workplace
Yet common bullying and generally abusive workplaces are completely legal in California. You have the right to quit anytime, not much else.
> Yet common bullying and generally abusive workplaces are completely legal in California.
They aren't covered by special, workplace-specific laws; there are, however generally-applicable civil laws that apply to them.