‘hostile work environment’ Archives
EEOC sues Phoenician Medical Center for sexual harassment
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Phoenix-based Phoenician Medical Center. The EEOC is accusing the company's Chief Medical Officer of making inappropriate sexual and derogatory comments about female employees and patients. According to the lawsuit, other managers at the Phoenician Medical [...]
Sam’s Club pays $440,000 to settle EEOC racial harassment lawsuit
Sam's Club, the chain owned and operated by Walmart, has agreed to pay $440,000 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had claimed that at least nine Mexican-American employees at the Sam's Club store in Fresno, California, were subjected to derogatory ethnic slurs by a [...]
Is the White House a hostile workplace?
A new book by journalist Ron Suskind chronicles complaints by some female White House staffers about a hostile work environment towards women. In “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President,” former White House communications director Anita Dunn was quoted as saying that, “If it weren’t for the president, [...]
Former potential successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway accused of being workplace bully
The New York Times has reported that some colleagues at Berkshire Hathaway claim that former executive David Sokol created a hostile work environment. According to the Times: His brass-knuckled approach alienated some Berkshire employees, as when he suggested that people with an illness or other personal problems were problematic and when he [...]
NJ city official accused of forcing typist to have sex with him in order to keep her job
Marcella Sbarbaro, a senior clerk typist at New Jersey's Hackensack municipality, has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the city. Sbarbaro claims that her boss, Joseph Mellone, created a hostile work environment by sexually harassing her and forcing Sbarbaro "to engage in sexual intercourse with him under the threat of losing her [...]
Owner of 42 McDonalds restaurants sued by EEOC for sexual harassment
Missoula Mac, Inc., a company that owns 42 McDonald's Restaurants, is being sued by the EEOC for sexual harassment and retaliation. The EEOC claims that male employees at the McDonald's restaurant in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, created a hostile work environment for their female coworkers by subjecting the women to sexual comments, sexual [...]
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