This week saw Madison Square Garden (MSG), parent company of basketball franchise the New York Knicks', ordered to pay $11.6m (£5.7m) in damages to a female senior executive.
Anucha Browne Sanders, head of marketing for the Knicks, filed charges of sexual harassment against Isiah Thomas, team coach and an NBA legend.
Isiah Thomas, allegedly called her a "bitch" and a "ho", and also refused to sign letters to season-ticket holders that she handed to him saying: "Bitch, I don't give a f$*k about these white people."
Sanders also alleged that Thomas made sexual advances towards her, professing his love for her.
Miraculously, despite losing the case, Thomas was back at work this week as if nothing happened.
Closer to home, one thinks back to former England football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, who in July 2004, was at the centre of a sex scandal when he had an affair with Faria Alam, a personal assistant to David Davies, the footballing body's executive director.
Despite the embarrassment he bought to the national team and the FA, Eriksson kept his job and took England to a quarterfinal loss against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup.
Personally, I would be frothing at the mouth if a colleague was found guilty for sexually harassing a work mate at a cost of nearly $12m, yet still came into the office the next day. It wouldn’t matter if it was Bill Gates or Ghandi.
How would a firm like MSG be able to justify its continued employment of Thomas and the FA of Eriksson?
Would they be able to fire a janitor for arriving to work late on several occassions, following such a case as Thomas'? And by which standards would the HR department at MSG be able to work from going forward?
