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Theoretical Scenario about HR Division

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A woman complains to HR about sexual harassment through the firm's intranet
instead of submitting the complaint to HR by email. Company policy is that
complaints of sexual harassment must be made directly to HR by email.

HR suspends this woman from her job for one week because she did not use the
proper channel to report the harassment.

In your view did HR act properly here?

If your answer is ‘no’ then to what would you attribute the suspension?
 
A woman complains to HR about sexual harassment through the firm's intranet
instead of submitting the complaint to HR by email. Company policy is that
complaints of sexual harassment must be made directly to HR by email.

HR suspends this woman from her job for one week because she did not use the
proper channel to report the harassment.

In your view did HR act properly here?

If your answer is ‘no’ then to what would you attribute the suspension?
With just this information alone, no HR did not act properly. Obviously, mistakenly reporting sexual harassment in the wrong forum does not warrant disciplinary action. I would attribute the suspension to retaliation against the employee.

But it sounds to me like there is a lot more to this story.
 
Sounds like HR is backing the abuser and retaliating against her, which I believe is a crime.
 
A woman complains to HR about sexual harassment through the firm's intranet
instead of submitting the complaint to HR by email. Company policy is that
complaints of sexual harassment must be made directly to HR by email.

HR suspends this woman from her job for one week because she did not use the
proper channel to report the harassment.

In your view did HR act properly here?

If your answer is ‘no’ then to what would you attribute the suspension?
What's an intranet? Is it public? Maybe it's not so cool to make those kind of accusations publicly, if she did?
 
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What's an intranet? Is it public? Maybe it's not so cool to make those kind of accusations publicly, if she did?
I agree, employees should not be accusing each other on a company wide intranet...
 
What's an intranet? Is it public? Maybe it's not so cool to make those kind of accusations publicly, if she did?
My thought as well. If the accuser went "public" with such an accusation instead of following company rules, she could possibly deserve more than just a suspension. Innocent until proven guilty and all...
 
This is absurd.

Is this based off a true situation or completely made up?
It is based upon a true story of a suspension for reporting something
through the wrong channel. It wasn't for sexual harassment however.
 
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