Why did Google let an executive who had credible complaints against him resign on his own, and even threw a goodbye party for him? I can only imagine how the victim felt when he or she heard about that party.
Seems like he resigned before being dismissed. As for the party, it was organized by his friends at Google.
If Amit did do something bad, allowing him to resign makes Google complicit in letting him off the hook scot free. In that case how would the poor victim feel?
If Amit did not do something bad, how can he ever clean his name from the allegation?
Really poorly handled by Google. And now made even worse by leaking stuff to the press. Stuff like that belong in a court of law, not in some HR department.
https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/penalties-sexual-haras...
The conduct involved overlaps with a number of different torts (some against the victim of harassment, some against the employer) and crimes on the part of the perpetrator, even when they are not the supervisor, though.
Simply put, that is not how the legal system works. Whether that is how the legal system should work, is another matter.
It is not clear whether your comment, or this type of comment generally, is expressing an inquiry: why did this not happen the way I thought it was supposed to? Or a more rhetorical, why isn't the system set up differently?
So, if the latter, my bad. But my intuition says the former, and it seemed worth addressing.
please learn the difference between civil and criminal law
It just feels that the US system is really unsatisfactory in actually resolving an incident. Is Amit a baddie or not? Who can tell. Here we're in a state of limbo.
the purpose of the justice system is to determine if a person accused of breaking a law did or did not break law. that actually has nothing to do with determining whether or not someone is a "baddie" or not.
Those sorts of moral judgments might be taken into consideration by legislators when they draft and vote on legislation in the first place, but once the law exists it is no longer really about morality. Only about legality. Many legal actions are deeply immoral. Many illegal actions are not immoral.
There is no state of limbo here. If Amit Singhal broke a criminal law then he would be investigated by the police. He isn't even accused of that. He is accused of having possibly violated a civil law that would make him (and his employer) liable for financial damages. That will only happen if the injured parties come forward and file suit against him though. It's not in limbo. The injured parties have not filed suit. There might be many possible reasons for that but it means that there is no legal action against Amit Singhal and it also probably means there won't be. His reputation on the other hand, is a totally different subject.