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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by dragonwriter on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:39PM (#25247434)
> No, the company isn't equipped for this and this is the role of the police and judicial system.

It's literally not; sexual harassment is a civil, not criminal, offense. The police have no concern with it at all, except that some sexual harassment is also a crime (e.g., rape, solicitation of prostitution, etc.)

But employers have legal liability for sexual harassment, which only gets more severe as it continues and they fail to act, whether or not there is a crime involved.

They cannot delegate this responsibility to the police.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by LunaSea on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:50PM (#25256602)
> It's literally not; sexual harassment is a civil, not criminal, offense.

That's why I included the judicial system.

> But employers have legal liability for sexual harassment, which only gets more severe as it continues and they fail to act, whether or not there is a crime involved.

It happening is required to be based on a suite or investigation. Again, a company isn't equipped to proceed with such an investigation on it's own.

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