Harassment in the Workplace Attorney in Houston, Texas
Can you tell us about a memorable sexual harassment case you handled?
Can you tell us about a memorable sexual harassment case you handled?
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sexual harassment cases
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are more about power
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than any other case any other type of
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case
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that comes into my office and we have
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seen
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egregious violations normally
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and and and i wish i wouldn’t be using
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the word normally
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in the sexual harassment context but but
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it does happen
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on a frequent basis normally it’s with a
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female
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who’s in a vulnerable situation we often
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see
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a single parent female trying to support
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children who have to do have to do
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whatever they can to maintain
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their job and i had perhaps the most
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egregious situation
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happened to me a few years ago with a
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client that that
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that sickens me to this day i had a lady
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who was a very well qualified
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pharmaceutical salesperson who sold a
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drug
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that was clearly better than the
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competition was the type of drug
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that you can’t buy at a grocery can only
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be used
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in an emergency room to treat victims of
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a certain disease
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and it was between her drug and another
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drug and
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by all the science her drug outperformed
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the other drug
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the person who was buying the drug in
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charge of this
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chain of hospitals
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was responsible for like 11 different
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hospitals
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and basically not basically blatantly
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told my client that there was only one
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way
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he would put that drug in and and i
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don’t want to get too graphic here but
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you could
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use your imagination to to
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figure out what my client had to do well
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my clients
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a you know single mother had at that
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time
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two high school age kids and had to go
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to college
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and she decided she was going to agree
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to the request just to get her her
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drug in and be a performer was a lot of
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money to her
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two or three days later she decides i
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can’t
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i just can’t do this and reports it
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to our company which was the appropriate
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thing to do
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the company said don’t worry we’ve got
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your back
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we’ll take care of you right after that
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because she told this doc this this
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person buying the
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the the drugs um
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she wasn’t going to do it he shunned her
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off
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and and wouldn’t and wouldn’t buy the
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drug well
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the company then went to try to sell the
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drug directly
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and couldn’t do it so that my client
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gets written up and put on a
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performance improvement plan realized
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that she was going to get terminated
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and comes to see me and we file
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a claim against the company for
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retaliation
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and the individual for basically
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tortiously interfering with with her job
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and
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it came to a confidential result but but
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it was successful
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the illustration of that story is
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the power total disproportion of power
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between the two parties and and that to
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me is just
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disgusting but it’s indicative and
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illustrative
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of what these sexual harassment cases
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are really like you know you see
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sexual harassment cases where executives
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are are hitting on subordinates you see
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that all the time
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it’s all about power and that’s all it
Houston, TX employment law attorney Gregg M. Rosenberg shares the story of a memorable sexual harassment case he handled.
