Wow! Now your crew are actually employees - or so says a lawyer!

Reading the article which is lacking on detail,it seems she is claiming to be legally a "worker" rather than an "employee".Workers dont have any rights as employees do,but they are protected from the statutary descrimination usual suspects.(Race Sex Sexual Orientation Religeon Disability)
Id guess her case will be about one of those issues,and if she has been harrassed in that way, perhaps she is right?
Where I would take issue though,is why RKJ should be the defendant,as he clearly wasnt there.
 
jerrytug said:
Having her clothes cruelly rent asunder then bent over the capstan and being roughly and repeatedly taken by a drunken mob of horny-handed pirates. Before breakfast, every day.
Allegedly. She was bitterly disappointed so she sues.
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Staggering misogyny demonstrated here. I only prey that I never come across you in a marina. How would you react to a man who said that of your mother, wife, daughter?
 
Biggles Wader said:
Reading the article which is lacking on detail,it seems she is claiming to be legally a "worker" rather than an "employee".Workers dont have any rights as employees do,but they are protected from the statutary descrimination usual suspects.(Race Sex Sexual Orientation Religeon Disability)
Id guess her case will be about one of those issues,and if she has been harrassed in that way, perhaps she is right?
Where I would take issue though,is why RKJ should be the defendant,as he clearly wasnt there.
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While RKJ may not have been there in the flesh she will say that he is vicariously liable as he set the whole thing up and he must be responsible for any failings on the part of his employees.

I wish that I had ever been in a position to take that trip of a lifetime, then I could have marketed that experience to my advantage, I think this lady may find some employers could take the view that she could possibly have taken more from the experiences if she had gone in with no pre conceived ideas , accepted what had to be a cultural shock after legal practice, completed her dream and treated the experience as part of life's rich tapestry of experience.

While we do not have any real detail I think I would have given my eye teeth for the experience, but then maybe I have a thick skin and fewer illusions left to me.
 
PARSONSHEATH said:
While RKJ may not have been there in the flesh she will say that he is vicariously liable as he set the whole thing up and he must be responsible for any failings on the part of his employees.

I wish that I had ever been in a position to take that trip of a lifetime, then I could have marketed that experience to my advantage, I think this lady may find some employers could take the view that she could possibly have taken more from the experiences if she had gone in with no pre conceived ideas , accepted what had to be a cultural shock after legal practice, completed her dream and treated the experience as part of life's rich tapestry of experience.

While we do not have any real detail I think I would have given my eye teeth for the experience, but then maybe I have a thick skin and fewer illusions left to me.
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At the prices charged, probably yes!
 
Roe said:
Staggering misogyny demonstrated here. I only prey that I never come across you in a marina. How would you react to a man who said that of your mother, wife, daughter?
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I take it that you don't, for instance, listen to "I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue" (ISIHAC) on BBC Radio 4?

Mike.
 
alant said:
Hardly, people like that get weeded out very quickly.
Her skipper + all the others, would have been with her in training, which for these guys is over 2 years prior to sailing an ocean, so any moans/problem would have been noticed before the main trip, particularly by her as an individual.
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So you'd expect that any problems with her attitude or expectations, as suggested here, would have been spotted and dealt with well in advance?
 
I'll lighten things up a bit.

Where I used to work we had a rather large female carer who I will call "Sue" (pun intended). Sue was aware that her size did not make her attractive to all, but she was good fun to work with.

We had a male carer who was on suspension for sexually harassment. As the norm staff were not supposed to discuss the matter, however no one took any notice.

I asked "Sue" who was the person who put the complaint in.

"Me" she said, "It's sexual harassment, and I'm not getting any"
 
snowleopard said:
Likewise it's disappointing to hear so many assuming that the bullying she says she suffered was either non-existent or her fault.
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In my experience when a woman cries wolf in relation to sexual abuse, other women are quick to openly and convincingly defend the accused man - and in a way so brutal that any man attempting the same lines of attack would be instantly labelled a misogynist.

Yet it would appear that many of us lot don't care much for the facts; our first line of defence is is that she either wasn't up to the job or made the accusation up. Our second defence is that if the accusation is true the female in question should be somehow grateful for the abuse. Pathetic.
 
dom said:
In my experience when a woman cries wolf in relation to sexual abuse, other women are quick to openly and convincingly defend the accused man - and in a way so brutal that any man attempting the same lines of attack would be instantly labelled a misogynist.

Yet it would appear that many of us lot don't care much for the facts; our first line of defence is is that she either wasn't up to the job or made the accusation up. Our second defence is that if the accusation is true the female in question should be somehow grateful for the abuse. Pathetic.
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Well put.
 
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