Safelite Glass Company Case Summary

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This report discusses a case study evaluation of Safelite Glass Company from North Carolina. The company is facing Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges due to a female employee allegations against an Human Resource manager that sexually harassed her, she reported it and the company didn’t took the initiative to investigate or handle properly the complaint.
In this case, the female employee (Lee Lavaliere-Steele) was hire as Human Resources assistant. During her time as Human Resources assistant, Lavaliere-Steele suffer from sexual harassment from the manager in which “frequently made sexual remarks, including complimenting her breasts and asking for the color of her panties, even at once occasion her boss rubbed her shoulder and attempted to pull her onto his lap”. (The HRSpecialist.com, …show more content…

For that reason, I believe that it’s really important to train properly employees, managers and employers in the proper steps of filing a complaint as well as having posted the company policies letters and the contact information of personal authorized to handle such situation.
As a resulted of this case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges Safelite Glass Company from “depriving Lavaliere-Steele of equal employment opportunities because of her sex and the practices described in the suit were intentional, and for that reason the EEOC is seeking back pay for Lavaliere-Steele as well as compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief, she filed the suit after attempt to reach a voluntary settlement with the company, ended in the Commission requesting trial”. (Martin,

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