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4 February, 21:57

Tina and Tom are co-workers at Acme Corporation. As night custodians, they work together cleaning the Acme office building at night when the building is empty. Tom regularly makes sexual advances toward Tina that distress her. However, Tina has never complained about Tom's conduct to her supervisor, Mary, who only works during the day. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

(A) Acme Corp is strictly liable for Tom's harassment of Tina.

(B) Acme may defend that it did not know about Tom's harassment of Tina.

(C) Acme is not liable because Tom is not Tina's supervisor.

(D) Acme Corp is not liable because Tina voluntarily continued to work at Acme.

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  1. 4 February, 22:13
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    Tina and Tom are co-workers at Acme Corporation. As night custodians, they work together cleaning the Acme office building at night when the building is empty. Tom regularly makes sexual advances toward Tina that distress her. However, Tina has never complained-The statement that holds accurate is (B) Acme may defend that it did not know about Tom's harassment of Tina. - it's a coworker so you need to prove the employer knew about it

    Explanation:

    Since, Tina and Tom are co-workers and they also work together as night custodian. If Tina has some problem with the sexual advances / behavior made tom then she should immediately complain about the same to her immediate supervisor, But in the case above Tina has not made any complain towards the harassment act of tom.

    so, the answer (B) Acme may defend that it did not know about Tom's harassment of Tina. - it's a coworker so you need to prove the employer knew about it holds True
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