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EEOC sues Henry’s Turkey Service for harassing mentally disabled workers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Hill Country Farms, doing business as Henry's Turkey Service, for subjecting a group of 31 men with intellectual disabilities to severe abuse and discrimination for more than 20 years. According to the EEOC, specifically, the complaint alleges that that the owners and [...]
EEOC sues DiMare Ruskin Inc for sexual harassment
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against DiMare Ruskin Inc. The EEOC claims that DiMare Ruskin crew leaders Ricardo Campbell and his son, Richard Lee Campbell, made vulgar sexual comments, groped, and made unwanted sexual advances towards three female employees and then fired them in [...]
El Camino College to pay $2.5 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuit
Nyesha Artiaga, a former secretary at El Camino College near Los Angeles, will receive $2.5 million to settle the sexual harassment lawsuit that she failed against the school. Artiaga claimed that James Schwartz, the 74-year-old former dean of El Camino College, sexually harassed her for over two years, offered her hundreds of dollars to have [...]
Best of the Blogosphere: Has the Recession Empowered the Bullies or the Bullied?
By Erica Pinsky, workplace bullying expert and author of Road to Respect: Path to Profit -- How to Become an Employer of Choice by Building a Respectful Workplace Culture I started writing Road to Respect in January 2007. The economy was hot and jobs were plentiful. I share a story in the introduction to the book about an employee who advised [...]
eBossWatch eNews – January 2011
Click here to read the complete version of eBossWatch eNews - January 2011 **************************** In this Issue: Hot off the Press The eNews Interview Bad Bosses Make the News Best of the Blogosphere eBossWatch Guest Columnist Rate Your Boss! Bad Boss of the Month [...]
Quaker Oats sued for racially hostile work environment and retaliation
In June, four employees at the Quaker Oats plant in Danville, Illinois, filed a racial harassment and hostile work environment lawsuit against the company. Glenda Brooks, William Musson, Cliff Redmon and Edward Smith allege that coworker Mario Garza racially berated Brooks, who is black, to other employees and called Brooks "a 'stinking nigger [...]
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