Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

Post by richbell » Wed, May 25, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

gbronner wrote: post #35

thedailymail wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And paid $250K of company money for her to keep quiet about it.

He said she said situation that could well be entirely fabricated. But it would take a million to bring it to trial and waste a few weeks of his life, and he has nothing to gain. Legalized extortion-if she had to jail if she lost, you'd see fewer of these

Post by mlindner » Sat, May 28, 2022, 2:32 PM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #28

alexitorg wrote: post #22

I'm curious. What is best practice here. Set up HR tribunals? Fire anyone who has a complaint made against them? Arrange counseling for affected parties? Offer voluntary arbitration?

Handle it in court. Sexual harassment is a crime, and we already have a legal system to deal with it. Arbitration / counseling / punishment within the company is ok as long as its voluntary (by the victim). If whatever occurred isn't actually a crime, then you handle it with arbitration which is not voluntary (because the company doesn't technically need to do anything). If the company wants to fire the accused even…