'Virus Harassment': In the Workplace, It's Not Just COVID-19 You Have to Worry About
What's going on here? Panic. What does that mean for employers? Bring it under control or bring on the lawyers, because you could end up in court.
March 16, 2020 at 02:56 PM
5 minute read
A woman with Asian features wearing a face mask is attacked in the New York subway by a young man who is videoed screaming "diseased b—–." A 59-year-old Asian man is kicked from behind and knocked down on the street, also in New York, by a teen who allegedly yelled "f—ing Chinese coronavirus" as he attacked. A pupil of Chinese heritage in Miami-Dade County is teased by her classmates as "eating bats," reducing her to tears.
The above were widely reported in legitimate media, except the last, which I know of from a witness. They are not workplace anecdotes, but here are a couple from my own personal knowledge:
Search Twitter for "Lysol coworker" and you'll get a never-ending stream of people complaining that they should spray their work area, that they want to spray their coughing co-worker, or that they have themselves been sprayed by a rampaging colleague with an aerosol. Employees demand that their boss send another employee home because that person's child attends a large school where a worker's teen child might have been exposed—not infected, just exposed —to COVID-19 on a cruise.
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