Here's a case that HR leaders can learn from when it comes to handling sexual harassment in the workplace
CVS has fired a regional manager and several employees after harassment allegations weren’t treated seriously, according to a report from CNN.
The dismissals resulted from a 2021 anonymous report the Woonsocket, RI-based company received about alleged misconduct by someone in field management. Two female employees in a New Jersey CVS alleged the store's manager "harassed or inappropriately touched them,” reported both CNN and The Wall Street Journal. CVS said it hired an outside firm to conduct an investigation.
The manager and the employees were fired because they failed to “treat the allegations with the seriousness we expect,” CVS said in a statement sent to CNN Business. "We absolutely do not tolerate behavior or actions that are harassing, hostile, abusive or discriminatory.”
The retailer also said that after the incident, it established an Office of Workplace Assistance, which will seek to improve employees' ability to confidentially raise concerns or report wrongdoing.
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