Case has been filed in US District Court in Detroit.
In a shocking incident, a male police officer has moved to the court accusing his female superior of sexually harassing him for over a year.
According to the lawsuit filed by Philip Kozlowski in the US District Court in Detroit, his female boss has been sexually harassing him for the last one year with inappropriate behavior including offering him oral sex, asking him to get his wife drunk to have a threesome; giving his partners fake assignments so that she could be alone with him; frequently driving by his house, and texting his personal cell phone.
According to a report that appeared in Detroit Free Press, this is not the first time that such an incident has been reported. In the past five years, there have been 1,200 cases where men have filed sexual harassment cases against their women counterparts who troubled them in the workplace.
According to experts, there might be more incidents of sexual harassments against men but many fail to open up due to the stigma associated with reporting such issues.
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the over the last 25 years the number of sexual harassment cases filed against women by men have doubled. When the number of such cases were just 8% in 1990 the number has raised to 17% in 2015 with a total of 1,165 men complaining about sexual harassment against 5,656 women in the same year.
“People are surprised that men would complain about this, and that could be a mistake,” said Ernest Haffner, an EEOC attorney in Washington, D.C., who tracks harassment in the workplace. “Employers should take harassment seriously, regardless of whether it’s a man or a woman. They all need to be treated the same.”
Another accusation made by Kozlowski in the lawsuit is the negligence of Wayne County Sheriff’s office in interfering despite him complaining about the harassment.
“Before he filed a formal complaint, he went to his supervisors, but they laughed it off,” said Bingham Farms attorney Scott Batey, who is representing Kozlowski. “That’s one of the problems you have in these reverse cases. A lot of men might think, ‘Well, where’s the harassment?’ ”