Remember the male harassment victim who was told he should walk around singing “I’m too sexy for my shirt”? The case has finally been resolved — and you can probably guess how it turned out for the employer.

Some background: A female employee of a wheelchair assistance service provider in Las Vegas began sending sexually suggestive notes to a male colleague a year after his wife died.

The male victim complained to management, but nothing was done – no company policy relating to the issue was in place.

The female worker then began relentlessly pursuing the male worker, including sending him a nude photo and making lewd gestures.

Eventually, the male worker complained to four separate managers, none of whom opted to help him.

The male employee, formerly a top performer, began to perform poorly, and eventually resigned.

Then he sued, claiming he was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment.

The company decided it’d be best to settle – to the tune of $75,000.

But there was another small issue: The firm failed  to agree to taking any measures to prevent sexual harassment in the future.

A federal judge finally had to order the company, Prospect Airport Services, Inc., to take those steps, which include:

  • developing policies and procedures for handling reports of sexual harassment
  • developing an effective investigation process for all complaints of sexual harassment
  • appropriately disciplining management and HR staff for failure to comply with such procedures, and
  • providing annual sexual harassment training to all supervisory employees.

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