To ponder legal action for being slapped on the arse

It's an assault. It's a difficult decision to make and I think it's the real test point re what progress women make in even expecting to be treated equally.We're still over analysing these types of situations and not simply reporting.

I cannot get the link to work but look up police officer in Scotland who was taken to court for touching a woman on her thingh on a night out. He also resigned before he was pushed. It's on the STV news pages.

What the hell did this man think he was doing to you? What would have happened if you had said nothing? Take it all the way. These low lifes do not deserve to make women feel vulnerable. Good luck to you.

To be fair someone who treats women like that in the workplace completely deserves to have his job jeopardised.

He hit her and that on a part of her body that is private!!! What is wrong with you?

Do you have a union ? I would go there . I don’t know if I would go so far as to go through the courts but I would certainly send some correspondence and I would get advice from a union or a solicitor about that

That’s not what I said at all and I think slapping someone’s bum is quite different to grabbing someone’s breast. If someone slapped my bum, or my daughter’s, then I would have done as others on this thread have suggested and told them to fuck off. If someone had grabbed a breast, my reaction would have been to slap them round the face or twist their bollocks, and also tell them to fuck off. But that would be the end of it if there was an apology and there wasn’t a repetition.

Of course slapping someone’s bum isn’t acceptable nowadays, but I don’t agree it’s the sort of serious sexual assault thst some people are making out on this thread. This happened in front of other people so it’s likely the man has already been reprimanded after the incident, and he will have realised from the OP’s reaction, and the reaction of others, that his action was not acceptable. It’s one thing to want to avoid seeing the man again at work but I think it’s a huge over reaction to take this further through his work and to possibly jeopardise his job, and quite ridiculous to consider going to the police.

I couldnt be bothered personally but then I put up with all kinds of shit in the 1980s at work.
I would have immediately given him a hard slap around the face and said oh "sorry" it was a gut reaction.

Absolutely correct and a very good question.
I doubt you'll get a logical reason why it's fine.

It’s more than a dickheads idiocy in this day and age . If he thought it was ok to do that in a professional context he probably does much worse things to women outside of work . Regardless a message needs to be gotten through to him that he cannot treat women like this in the workplace . It’s not “idiocy” it’s disgusting , entitled , sexist behaviour and meets the definition for sexual assault.

Utterly unacceptable, I would report this to the police, I find the minimising of sexual assault on this thread to be quite offensive.

Legally, I think it's sexual assault. Report it online.

I would absolutely report to the police and let them decide what the appropriate action to take is. I'm so angry that people are warning you off this with the idea it might affect your professional reputation - this is the sort of attitude that stops women speaking out and keeps on enabling men like this.

I think the owner has already said he won't be offered any more work - but when there's a shortage of bearers who's to say whether FD will stick to this.

I think I would report to police. Not expecting any action and being clear that you understand that no action may be taken. But primarily because you want it on record. Not forgotten about over and over again.

You've made your point, everyone apologised. Don't waste more time on this.

I wasgoing to say leave it but since ge hasform i would speak to theowner and explain he shouldnt be offered any more work

@IneedAniffler ”He has done it before to the FDs wife and I assume lots of other women”

If there is a Finance Director then there is a proper organization in place.
Start there.
You being a contractor is neither here nor there.

And this is how men who assault women get away with it. Because the woman is labelled a trouble maker and the man has nothing to tarnish his name and can carry on behaving however he chooses

I remember going for a mole check at a hospital back in the middle 90s. I was probably about 32. I had to lay on the table thing with my pants and bra on. There was a male consultant and a female nurse. When he checked my back, I was lying on my tummy. Once he'd checked, he slapped me on the bottom and said "all done, you'll be alright".

I did wonder about it afterwards. I don't think it would happen now.

Well done OP for standing up for yourself. Sorry it happened.

If a dirty old man grabbed your daughter’s breast in front of you, and then said ‘oh sorry’…. you would just accept that?

we shouldn’t have to be putting up with this shit.

Out of interest, why would the civil claim be unlikely to succeed given there were witnesses?

If you trust anyone present get a written account from them or an endorsement if your written account and also send yourself your own written account. I'm not sure re. timescales but it's amazing how people's memories blur and also how after a while people stop wanting to be involved.

It's not really about what op wants tho is it? Someone has broken the law of the land it's a police matter.

The reality is not much will probably happen. But there will be a record of his behaviour and this is more likely to keep others safe.

This is really, really serious behaviour. It's damaging, hurtful and humiliating. It's mysogynistic as he would not have struck a man in the same way. Its assault and should be reported as such.