Willis v. Ideal Basic Industries, Inc.

Wayne Willis worked for Ideal Basic Industries for almost twenty-six years. On September 22, 1983, Willis's supervisors, N.A. Nicholson and Jim Gregory, told him that a recent member of his staff, Sandra Steffens, had accused him of sexual harassment. Willis denied the charges and told them that in fact he was thinking of recommending that Steffens be fired because she had recently overpaid herself and had failed to account for office petty cash expenditures. Nicholson and Gregory conducted a brief investigation into the matter, and on the following day, Friday, September 23, they presented…