This is just a stunning and stupid decision. From the Havre Daily News: "
The Havre Eagles Club has been ordered by the Montana Human Rights Bureau to pay more than $193,000 to a former employee who said she was sexually harassed by the club manager for more than five years.The club was also ordered to make sure that the manager is never alone with female employees at the club.Gregory Hanchett, hearings officer for the state Department of Labor and Industry, wrote in his decision Friday that KayCee Groven had proven that the Eagles had subjected her to a hostile work environment by the actions of her supervisor, Eagles Club manager Tom Farnham.He further ordered that the Eagles pay Groven for future wages lost because she cannot return to work at the club.: http://www.havredailynews.com/cms/news/local_headlines/story-229757.html First, you are being sexually harassed. So, why would you work at that place of employment for over 5 years? That just doesn't make sense. If the work environment is so damn difficult because you have a boss who is a pervert, why don't you walk away after maybe 6 months to a year? But 5 years? Further, the Eagles Club is ordered to pay for the lady's future wages, presumably for life. Ok, I understand she cannot work at the Eagles again and maybe take 6 months off for rehabilitation but what is stopping her from getting a job from a different employer? Finally, what right does a human rights commission have to order a private business to set working conditions? I assume the supervisor is still working for the Eagles and the Eagles don't believe the lady's story. I don't think I have ever heard of a case where a judge in a civil case has ordered a person not to be alone with females, especially if there is not settlement. But some hearing examiner can order this? Unbelievable. More stupidity.
Ms Groven did complain to the president, and the head trustee, to the point where the head trustee was staying till 2am at her closing shifts to make sure she was safe, as Mr. Farnham was always lurking. I'm sure that she was under the assumption that was all she could do. The situation was not handled properly by the president, or the head trustee. It escalated to the point of her finally throwing her keys off of Mr. Farnhams forehead on his last attempt to have his way with her while she was working behind the bar. Get all the facts if you are going to make "stupid" comments please.
ReplyDeleteI think you need to talk to the folks at the Havre Daily News about getting things right. They never mentioned that.
ReplyDeleteBut I stand by my point is if things are that bad, you do do something about it and not wait 5 years.
Yea, I guess though it is hard for you, such a weatlh of knowledge and experience to put yourself in a young girls shoes, in a small town, with few friends and family...you are right sir..if a person is not comfortable, they should have the common sence to get away from it. Leave what they know, scrap to raise your baby by yourself elsewhere...silly little girl, how dare she be so STUPID.
ReplyDeleteI used to live Havre and it is not that small of a town. And I lived there with no family and started with no friends. And when it wasn't working out for me, I left. She could have gone several places and if was not from that area, she could have gone home.
ReplyDeleteBut you don't answer the main question as why it took 5 years to do something. There are many bars in Havre that this woman (she is not a little girl) could have worked at, instead of the Eagles.
I actually agree with the both of you… to a point, just can't justify the victim as being called stupid. And it’s not that the Eagles don't believe the story. They all know it to be true. This Mr. Farnham has way too much power in the club. He is there from 7Am till 2AM only leaving for errands, and meals. He hand picks his employees, trustees, and officers in the club. It is not the "Havre Eagles", it is Farnhams little world. By hand picking his puppets to "run" the club, he pulls all the strings. The people he had in office, and as trustees at the time of the accusations and trials, could not run the club, or anything at all for that matter. They all just answer to Mr. Farnham. They had him whispering in their ears the whole time he was missing so they knew what to do while he spent his 30 days in jail. They had to go see him daily to keep the club running. They even took pictures of him in his jail clothing and passed pictures around of him making funny faces while behind bars. He was sad to be "on vacation", staying at "the Havre Hilton" This is the seriousness of the situation all because he is smart enough to surround himself by imbeciles to make himself more important. It really is a sad state of affairs in that club. Because of his disgusting antics and behavior most good patrons have stopped going there..only to make the problem worse, as he is only surrounded by more brainwashed idiots who believe his is the only one that can run the club. He is buried so deep in this club it IS his life. His sad pathetic wife either can't stand him at home, or is just as whipped as his "friends". I hope the many letters to the National Aires and other head Eagles offices get thru to somebody that can come and remove the cancer that has spread throughout this club...before it affects this great town again with another outbreak. Absolutely disgusting that this creep still runs a great club such as the Eagles..absolutely disgusting.
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