Wednesday, August 11, 2010

License to Leer? Court Ruling Creates Loophole for Sexual Harassment at Drug Companies | BNET

It’s OK for pharmaceutical sales rep managers at Novo Nordisk (NVO) to sexually harass women they supervise as long as those women are breaking the PhRMA sales rep code, according to a federal appeals court ruling. The ruling sends all the wrong messages to the drug industry and its tens of thousands of sales reps: It suggests that male sales supervisors ought to encourage their female sales reps to violate industry standards if they want to leer and grope them at work, and then fire them.

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