Case: Individual Employment Rights/Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (Nev. Ct. App.)

A district court erred in dismissing a bartender’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club and its general manager based on a two-year statute of limitations, a Nevada court of appeals ruled. The employee sufficiently pleaded IIED when she alleged that the manager’s sexual misconduct coupled with his retaliatory actions caused her to suffer from severe anxiety, sleeplessness, and depression that required her to take medication. Her complaint alleges that her emotional distress was the result of his outrageous conduct, the court said, as it states that he modified her schedule to punish her for refusing ...