This long and drawn out drama has finally concluded, or perhaps, not.
[quote=“The China Post on 4-29-2011”]
Court rejects teacher’s claim of lost reputation
Taipei District Court has rejected the claim filed by a foreign teacher of a university in Taipei for reputation damage. The teacher was fired because of sexual harassment allegation.
The teacher filed a lawsuit against the school for the harassment accusation with a claim totaling over NT$700,000, including one-year salary and NT$100,000 moral damage compensation. In addition, he demanded that the university publish an apology for its layoff decision.
He said that the sexual harassment charge was groundless as the girl who accused him neither screamed nor reported his move to the police.
The decision of his dismissal and disclosure of the grievance case to the teacher grievances committee were not appropriate, he added.
The girl was said to have felt “disturbed and afraid” by the teacher’s inappropriate conduct. She first brought up her experience to counselor in the campus. The director of her department later reported the case to the teacher grievances committee, which decided that the teacher had to go.
According to the court ruling released yesterday, several witnesses saw the teacher embrace the female student’s waist and whisper in her ear in a school event. The teacher lost his case because the decision of the teacher grievances committee was valid and the school disclosure of the harassment investigation did not break the law.
The teacher can file an appeal against the ruling, said the court.[/quote]
Here is a link to the former teacher’s blog where you can read the entire story from beginning to its current end. If you follow the link to his personal blog, you can read his response to this most recent court ruling. It’s very long and drawn out, but a worthwhile read if you are interested in the Taiwan judicial system and the laws which govern our lives while we are living here.
[quote=“Pow3hatan’s personal blog”]
I’ve been teaching English off and on since 1992 in Taiwan and have experienced many of the highs and lows of life here. Unfortunately, the most dramatic of my experiences involves one of Taiwan’s lowest lows - false accusations and a justice system rife with discrimination against foreigners, injustice, incompetence and recent reports in the news of longstanding corruption that goes all the way up to the High Court.
Read my new blog [color=#FF0000]"Taiwan’s Injustice to Expats (& Other Foreign Guests)[/color] for more about my nightmare experience and related stories about the judiciary.[/quote]