Posted on 07/31/2013 5:31:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Mayor says didn't get training, San Diego should pay for sex harassment defense Photo 7:37pm EDT
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, under mounting pressure to resign over sexual harassment accusations, deserves to have the city pay for his defense because he never received workplace behavior training, his lawyer has told the city attorney.
Filner's private lawyer Harvey Berger wrote in a letter to City Attorney Jan Goldsmith on Monday that San Diego was legally obligated to provide training to prevent sexual harassment to all management-level employees within six months of their joining the city. Goldsmith's office released the letter on Wednesday.
"The city failed to provide such training to Mayor Filner," Berger wrote. "In fact, it is my understanding that such training was scheduled, but that the trainer for the city unilaterally canceled, and never re-scheduled such training for the mayor (and others.)"
Filner, a former Congressman, was elected mayor of San Diego in November 2012. Berger wrote in his letter that Filner had never received training to prevent sexual harassment when he served the San Diego area as a Congressman between 1993 and 2012.
He added that "if there is any liability at all, the city will almost certainly be liable for 'failing to prevent harassment.'"
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Liberals sure know how to shift blame.
Aint the mayor, as chief executive of the town, supposed to setup and oversee such training for all employees. By pleading ignorance he admits incompetence.
"The city failed to provide such training to Mayor Filner," Berger wrote. "In fact, it is my understanding that such training was scheduled, but that the trainer for the city unilaterally canceled, and never re-scheduled such training for the mayor (and others.)"
The first responsibility of a lawyer is to not say something so earth-shatteringly stupid that his client becomes even more of a laughing stock.
The city should not pay for his personal defense.
I bet that this guy finishes his 4 year term. There will be another three and half years of this guy unless the FBI nails him on the extortion investigation.
Incompetence is part of the job description if you're a Democrat.
Maybe they should pay for his castration too.
I had sexual harassment training following the 1991 Tailhook incident. Have successfully avoided such tyranny since Navy retirement in 1993.
Respect for women is something his father should have taught him. Let him sue his father.
The dirty bastard needs to be doing hard time.
He’s been on TV apologizing twice that I know of. If he doesn’t know what he did was wrong then what is he apologizing for?
Would I be way off base to assume that this clown's a Rat?
He’s pulling a George Costanza!
I worked for a large computer company in the 80s and we were always getting some sort of sensitivity training. Then I went to work for a mid-size company where the sum total of such "training" was a 100 word memo issued each year by the HR VP which basically said "don't."
>> deserves to have the city pay for his defense because he never received workplace behavior training, his lawyer has told the city attorney.<<
I would commit suicide before I would ever say I needed training in how not act like an a-hole.
If you need training on not hitting on, much less physically touching, women who want you to go away then you need training on how to be a man.
With my current employer I have to undergo it once a year and pass a test of all crazy things.........
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