The complainant alleged sexual harassment and sexual solicitation by the owner of the respondent cleaning company.
The Board of Inquiry found that the owner engaged in a course of vexatious physical and verbal conduct of a sexual nature, creating a poisoned work environment that caused the complainant to quit.
While the Board dismissed the allegation of sexual solicitation, finding the owner's conduct amounted to inappropriate joking rather than genuine advances, it upheld the sexual harassment complaint.
The respondents were ordered to pay $1,500 in general damages for mental anguish and infringement of rights, and $2,700 in special damages for eight weeks of lost wages.
