Sexual Discrimination Award for Explicit Text Messages
A woman in England has been awarded compensation of £4,000 (approx. $8,200) for sexual discrimination in the workplace after she was sent sexually explicit text messages.
Lisa Jones, who worked for a mobile phone firm in Preston, told an employment tribunal that she had been sent explicit and sexual messages by her national sales manager.
Ms Jones eventually resigned from her post because of the text messages, which started out as suggestive and eventually became explicit, and accused the firm and her manager of sex discrimination.
The Birmingham Employment Tribunal ruled that Ms Jones had been a victim of sexual discrimination.
Now that text messaging has become commonplace, I predict that text messages will begin to play a large role in sexual harassment and sexual discrimination cases in the United States very shortly.
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