‘hostile work environment’ Archives
Michaels to pay $8 million for firing employee with breast cancer
A jury has ordered Michaels Stores Inc. to pay Kara Jorud, a former store manager, $8.1 million for firing her while she was undergoing chemotherapy after having been diagnosed with breast cancer. The jury found that Michaels violated Jorud's rights under the Family Medical Leave Act, the Florida Civil Rights Act and the Americans with [...]
Abusive Navy Captain stripped of her command for creating hostile work environment
Earlier this year, a scathing Navy inspector general's report about the abusive behavior of Capt. Holly Graf led to her removal as head of the missile cruiser U.S.S. Cowpens. The IG report concluded that Graf violated Navy regulations "by demeaning, humiliating, publicly belittling and verbally assaulting...subordinates while in command of [...]
CBS Corp settles Sumner Redstone harassment complaint
CBS Corporation is apparently settling a hostile work environment complaint filed by Senior Vice President Karen O’Rourke Zatorski against Sumner Redstone, the company's 87-year old billionaire chairman. The Daily Beast reports that: According to a source with knowledge of the situation, CBS, which is controlled by the 87-year old mogul, [...]
Interior Department CIO sued for race discrimination
In July 2010, a judge ruled against the Department of the Interior in an employment discrimination lawsuit and found that the department's chief information officer Craig Littlejohn called African American subordinates "monkeys." According to the Washington Post: "...Richard W. Furcolo, the administrative judge in the discrimination [...]
Salmonella egg recall company previously accused of hostile work environment and sexual harassment
In the midst of the massive US FDA recall of more than 500 million eggs due to salmonella contamination, federal officials say that there is a common thread running through the problem: DeCoster Farms. DeCoster Farms is one of the top ten egg producers in the country and is no stranger to complaints about health, safety, and human and animal [...]
Univ of Texas hires abusive boss sued for creating hostile work environment
In early 2009, Sagun Tuli, MD, Harvard’s first female spinal surgeon, was awarded over $1.5 million in damages incurred from a hostile work environment, including discrimination and retaliation, at the hands of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and its then chief of neurosurgery, Arthur L. Day, MD. A seven-week trial [...]
‘Bizarre’ and hostile work environment leads to lawsuit
After witnessing and enduring 17 years of abuses while working as a chemist at Petro-Lubricant Testing Laboratories in LaFayette, NJ, former employee Kristin Laforgia is suing the company and its owners, John Wintermute and Josiah Wintermute. She is seeking punitive damages for gender discrimination, hostile work environment, retaliation, and [...]
IRS agent sues boss for sexual harassment
An IRS agent in Roanoke, Virginia filed a lawsuit accusing her boss, Richard Cook, of sexual harassment. The Roanoke Times reports that "Sarah Klein, who joined the IRS in 2006 and works in the Bank Secrecy Act Division, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Roanoke seeking $6 million, plus attorneys fees. For nearly two years, Klein [...]
Little Caesars sued by employee for male-on-male sexual harassment
Mathew Mangara has filed suit against Little Caesars, alleging that his boss at the Godfrey, Illinois Little Caesars Pizza, David Kelley, repeatedly sexually harassed him from July 6, 2008, through July 29, 2008. Mangara claims that Kelley violated his civil rights and that Little Caesars exposed him to sexual harassment and a hostile work [...]
EEOC sues Omnicare Inc for sexual harassment in Wisconsin Pinnacle Pharmacy
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Covington, KY-based Omnicare Inc., which does business as Pinnacle Pharmacy permitted a sexually hostile work environment in one of its Wisconsin pharmacies. The EEOC claims that several women complained that they were sexually harassed and that [...]
