Sexual Harassment

The #MeToo movement is encouraging companies to examine their workplace environment even further as of today, to establish a healthier culture that administers respect to all workers with a zero tolerance policy that focuses on sexual harassment and other types of discrimination. Training programs for supervisors and employees alike will likely be put in place…

Two IHOP restaurants in Illinois have settled to pay over $1 million dollars in restitution by the federal government and a group of employees that underwent extreme sexual harassment at the two diners. The settlement was proposed last week but still requires approval from the court. This case of alleged harassment, falls on the Equal…

Four former Delta Airlines employees have filed a lawsuit against the airline for firing them for speaking in their native tongue, Korean along with being sexually harassed while working. All four women have a combined 50 years working experience and were all born in Korea. Each woman has handled passengers flying back and forth to…

Michael Palamar, a supervisor for the New York City Parks Department has been accused of sexual harassment whilst advancing within the department despite lengthy documents revealing his misconduct at the workplace. The NY Post noted that Palamar was handed promotions after he was convicted of on-the-job sex abuse. Pilar Taylor, former Parks Department employee claims…

A fast food restaurant is being sued by a former employee who was a minor at the time of employment, claiming she was sexually harassed by her supervisor while working at Hardee’s in Branson West. A petition was filed in Stone County against the restaurant and her alleged abuser, Wyatt-Thomas Robert Cannady, 23 for harassment…

Jeannie Holohan, an administrative assistant at Newmark Knight Frank claims she has been fired after addressing to the company’s human resources department that vice chairman Merrill Roth had continuously made lude, sexual remarks in the workplace. This is the second lawsuit that has been filed for sexual harassment against Newmark Knight Frank this year. Both…

Education Week released a updated study mirroring data from a 2015 survey by Cosmopolitan magazine in which 23% of female educators who participated in the survey stated they had been sexually harassed in their workplace. According to Cosmopolitan, educational institutions have been ranked among the places where employees were less likely to be sexually assaulted…

Employees of the mega-chain fast food restaurant, McDonald’s are claiming that they have been the victims of workplace sexual harassment by their employers and co-workers. The company states that they do not tolerate any form of misconduct within the workplace and yet victims’ complaints are falling on deaf ears it seems. Eight states have filed…

In just one year, the mega-company, Microsoft fired nearly two dozen employees due to sexual harassment complaints that were filed against them. A top resource executive stated that from June 2016 to July 2017 almost 100 grievances were recorded to the HR department. Kathleen Hogan, the current chief people’s officer at Microsoft stated, “Nearly 50%…

A former employee of Google is suing the major company for sexual harassment that she endured while working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley until she was fired in 2016. Loretta Lee alleges that she endured sexual harassment, gender discrimination and employment termination on unjustified grounds. Lee was forced to be the victim of…