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It appears as though less than thorough investigations were completed, and “less than appropriate” disciplinary actions were taken. It is unfortunate that the time limit for filing an EEOC complaint has passed.
How about reforms to prevent economic harassment? How about trying to protect those people that live, visit and support downtown Indy? That would be a good reform.
This is miss-leading calling him an “aid”. He was a Deputy Mayor. Cook did not operate in a vacuum. He operated in close association with the mayor. Party allegiance aside this should be handled the way the law requires it to be in a non-governmental business. Fired and banned from business with the City/County.
Call him whatever you like. He no longer works for the city, so he cannot be fired, and it was also admitted (you can read it right in the reporting) that his behavior, illegal yes, was not reported until years after the incidents. Now, this is where the issue is that the reporting needs to be made easier and given a greater chain of independence. And, hopefully, these reforms make reporting incidents less intimidating and easier to accomplish.
I have worked in many different industries, for both big and small companies, and seen much of the same type of thing happen over and over, despite all the laws and good intentions. The issue almost always comes down to the need for better reporting and enforcement mechanisms—not “education” and not even harsher penalties:
Oh no! A Pledge! That’ll show em. This is just grandstanding. The Democrat mayor is in hiding. How many other people knew and didn’t act? Does anyone know any “journalists”?
No other journalists are even covering the story…. Maybe go report on it yourself if you’re unhappy?
I wonder if Hogsett’s recent divorce is linked to any of this behavior by his top aid?
No allegations he and Cook had a romantic relationship, so the answer works be no.
These things happen in every industry, at all sorts of companies, of all sizes, for-profit, non-profit, and government.
Of course, no one really cares. despite the clutch-the-pearls posts on social media and the press releases. People only care about making political zingers or getting attention for themselves. This is true with most societal issues. As for this specific issue, hopefully, a clearer and more transparent reporting mechanism can be put in place to make these incidents easier to report.
Additional HR employees, committees and more training. Typical democratic response, spend more money. Laws were broken, people need to lose their jobs, this was not normal behavior for a civilized workplace.
It is not acceptable behavior. Sadly, it IS and has been quite normal for many decades.
I have worked in law, accounting, social services, tech, etc. Every job I have had at both big and small companies, there were sexual harassment incidents. that we heard about. So, I always get annoyed when people pretend it is not a serious societal wide issue, and act like these things are just “one-offs.” They are not.
I hope the training starts at the top level . And, that the policy specifies some direct penalties for supervisors, officials that fail to prevent or report harassment
like termination, demotion, pay cut …
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