He was hired to enforce the town's sexual harassment policy, and He's been fired for sexual harassment.
Jayme Dias was hired in 1990 as an affirmative action officer for this town south of Boston, including fairness in employment practices, but Nando Times says he was fired Jan. 26 after a female employee complained that she put up with six years' worth of his unwanted sexual advances.
Her name hasn't been made public, and Dias isn't sure whether or if to take action to hold onto his job, his attorney Edward O'Brien tells Nando Times.
The woman says the harassment started when Dias asked her for dates shortly after she was hired in 1994, Nando Times says, after which he's alleged to have called her at home and, once, began fondling and kissing her.
Both Dias and the woman are married.
The woman filed a sexual harassment complaint last July, and Dias was given a letter of caution in November, Nando Times says. Her appeal was heard in a private hearing Jan. 13, where a second woman also said to have been harassed by Dias corroborated her complaint.
This second woman, Nando Times says, hadn't filed her own complaint but told town officials she quit working for the town several years ago because Dias had sexually harassed her.
