‘hostile work environment’ Archives
Big Lots settles EEOC sexual harassent and retaliation lawsuit
Big Lots Inc. has agreed to pay $50,000 to a former employee to settle an EEOC lawsuit charging the retailer with sexual harassment and retaliation at its Lufkin, Texas store. The employee, Michelle Pritchard, claimed that she was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment in which the Lufkin store's general manager forcibly had unwanted [...]
Toxic boss Vadim Poronovsky does not regret profanity-laced email to his employees
Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of the Manhattan-based Paradou restaurant who sent an abusive email to his employees, has said that he does not regret sending the email and calling his workers names such as "F--KING LAZY DISRESPECTFUL A--HOLES" and "you bunch of f--king children". Ponorovsky told New York Magazine's Grub Street, "Out of the whole [...]


