Facebook Faces Legal Action for Sexual Harassment

"A sacked Facebook employee, who was asked to leave the company in 2013, has filed a legal complaint against the social networking giant, alleging the company of sex discrimination, sexual harassment and emotional torture." - efytimes.com

Work environment Hostile

The former Facebook employee, Chia Hong, claimed that the work environment was very hostile in the company that she faced severe humiliation as she was asked to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues. She alleged that she was asked why she didn't only bother taking care of her child than working for the company.

Racial Discrimination

She further added that she was discriminated for being a woman and also for her nationality. She was Taiwanese working for the social networking giant. She was employed at the company for more than 3 years. She started out as product manager and then shifted to technology partner in finance. The company served pink slip in 2013.

Facebook is on Right Track

According to the Facebook spokeperson, the company work extremely hard to avoid such situation within the company and further stated that the company believes they are on right track.The spokesperson defended that the Facebook treated it employees fairly. Chia Hong has sued Facebook for punitive damages.

Legal Consequence for Harassment of Women in Workplace

If the incident is proved beyond all reasonable doubt it cast a shadow upon the tech giants regarding the safety of woman at workplace. In India, the prevention of harassment of woman at workplace is guided by the famous Supreme court judgement which is popularly known as Vishaka Guidelines which was later replaced with an Act of 2013.