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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Director sues Nippon Express, alleges HR ignored his harassment complaints for months - hcamag.com

He says he reported it again and again. The investigation just sat there, he claims

A logistics director says his harassment complaints stalled for months. Then his employer fired him.

Timothy Alexander spent nearly three years as director of healthcare at Nippon Express U.S.A. before the company let him go in March 2025. On May 29, 2026, he sued - and his complaint reads like a checklist of what can go wrong when an HR function fails to act on a report.

Alexander describes himself in the filing as "a disabled, non-Japanese male." He alleges that a female co-worker subjected him to repeated sexual harassment that leadership witnessed and did not stop.

The conduct started with a nickname, according to the complaint. The filing says the co-worker began calling him "Tiny Tim," pointed toward his crotch, and said "there's nothing tiny about you though." Alexander alleges she used the nickname in customer and internal meetings, sometimes in front of senior leadership. He says a vice president asked whether he was comfortable with it, that he said no, and that the VP promised to address it but that "no effective corrective action was taken."

It got worse, the filing says. Alexander alleges that during a conversation about tattoos, the co-worker showed him a sexually explicit photo on her phone. He says he filed an HR complaint afterward, followed up about six months later, and was told the investigation was "still ongoing." He alleges he heard nothing more until about January...



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