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What should we do? The law and our union rules are on a collision course over harassment

by 01/25/2012

Q. Our union agreement says we must give 48 hours’ notice before dismissing a regular employee. But we have proof that two employees have been har­­assing—and continue to harass—black and gay em­­ployees. In fact, their har­ass­ment just caused us to lose a good em­­ployee who couldn’t take it any ­longer. What trumps what?

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