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A Clayton woman is claiming $25,000 in lost wages and benefits as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former manager. The suit claims that the Café Napoli cocktail server became the victim of unwelcome sexual behavior over a two-month period. After rejecting inappropriate sexual advances from her manager, the woman claims to have been fired unjustly. The bar…
Clay County, Missouri officials have agreed to pay $1.2 million to a former sheriff’s deputy who claimed she was subjected to persistent and unwanted sexual advances from her six male co-workers. She sued for sexual harassment after her complaints that a male deputy texted her a photo of his genitals were dismissed and resulted in her being given a written…
Missouri employers may want to take a lesson from a particular high-profile sexual harassment case. The mayor of San Diego is named as the defendant in one woman’s sexual harassment lawsuit and is facing allegations of improper sexual conduct by more than 12 other women. Although the mayor has denied the claims, he acknowledged that he disrespected and intimidated women…
Unpaid interns learning the ropes at various Kansas City offices and businesses may be shocked to learn that federal courts added certain civil rights protections to the list of benefits to which they are not entitled. The case involved an unpaid intern who sued for sexual harassment after claiming her boss invited her to an orgy and said she would…
The U.S. Equality Employment Opportunity Commission has sued the Help at Home company after three Missouri workers were allegedly terminated for reporting sexually inappropriate behavior. As a result of the sexual harassment suit, Help at Home has been ordered to pay $302,500 in damages to all three former employees. The incident began when a manager at the company’s Hillsboro, Missouri…
Missouri fans of Major League Baseball may be interested to note that MLB’s new harassment and discrimination policy contains stronger rules against sexual orientation harassment and discrimination. The new policy requires the league to create a workplace code of conduct applicable to all players in both the major and minor leagues together with training sessions and a central complaint system.…
A Missouri woman claims that her boss began sexually harassing her as early as her job interview. According to the complaint filed in a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer, the woman claims the owner of Spear Construction asked her during a February 2011 job interview to stand and turn around so he could take a “look at her…
Clothing shoppers in Missouri may be interested to know that according to an annual report released by American Apparel, numerous high-profile sexual harassment cases that involved the firm’s CEO, Dov Charney, may have been fraudulent. At one point, Mr. Charney was implicated in seven separate cases of allegedly initiating unwanted sexual contact with advertising models and female employees at his…
The Missouri Legislature is considering a bill that would eliminate individual liability for workplace sexual harassment. Critics say that the proposed change, which is sponsored by Rep. Gary Cross, would weaken the state’s employment laws and make it easier for sexual predators in the workplace to escape the consequences of their actions. Under current law, managers can be sued in…
In our prior post we talked about the numerical side of a recent research study that looked into sexual harassment and teenagers in the workplace. What the researchers found was shocking: 54 percent of teenage females and 37 percent of males who participated in the study experienced an incident of sexual harassment in only two years. While those statistics are…