My sister filed a sexual harassment suit against her previous employer while employed with this well known corporation in Vancouver, wa. She also had severe emotional distress while working for the CEO and CFO of the company. The CEO made comments daily about what she ate and drank and also about the amount of time she should spend working out. They also had her doing the job of 5 people. She was worked to death and rarely had a day off. The company was very concerned with the health and fitness of employees and the CEO often made comments that he would never hire a fat person to work for him.
After she filed the suit, they in turn filed a suit against her for use of the company credit card. She had approval and the CEO signed off on all of her expenses. The compnay paid her credit card charges for years. In the beginning she wrote checks to reimburse the compnay for her expenses but the checks were never cashed.
Her current lawyer is not doing a very good job repesenting her and is a rookie. He has never had a case like this one and doesn't know the best way to represent her. She already paid him $10,000.
He saiys that if she hadn't filed her sexual harassment case that this other case would not exist and she would own the compnay for the way they treated her. However now he says since she used the company credit card she looses all credibility and would not have a case against them. I am trying to prove the she was under so much emotional distress and pressure she used to card for personal expenses to get back at them for the way she wa treated. Her lawyer says if the job was that bad why didn't she leave . I told him many people stay in situations that are less than ideal. My sister is a very hard working woman and this was a well known copmany with a lot of potential. She does not have a degree and her options are limited without her degree. She did keep working there. Her marriage fell apart as a result and now she is a single mother. She now works for the city and her employer showed up to court to defend her and even though they know everything they have kept her on and are fighting for her. She received 16 letters of character that her lawyer has asked for.
