E-mail stalking

Case #1. An employer wants to break up the labour-contract with a female employee because of financial reasons: the business is going very bad lately, so he argues. The employee claims in turn damages for loss of income and mental suffering. She has been ill for the past year, because of sexual harassment by her office manager. The office manager pursued her a couple of times with sexually charged remarks and obscene gestures. He also stalked her frequently by e-mail. The employer, to whom the uninvited and unwanted actions were reported twice, was not able to put them to an end. As a result, the employee had to be treated in a mental hospital for six months.