San Diego in Southern California will pay $675,000 to a woman who claimed she was groped by a former police officer. U-T San Diego reported the City Council approved the payment on Tuesday. The woman claimed Anthony Arevalos touched her …
In honor of National Boss Day, eBossWatch, which enables people to anonymously rate their bosses and evaluate potential employers, has released a study on workplace harassment and discrimination charges that is says are costing employers a “shocking” amount of money. …
Federal officials have filed a lawsuit against a California electric company alleging it allowed discrimination and sexual harassment of female employees. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against the Bakersfield-based Braun Electric Company alleging that for the past …
Two University of Akron employees, including a Republican candidate for Summit County, Ohio sheriff, have resigned their positions after a university investigation concluded they violated the school’s sexual harassment policy. Sheriff candidate Randy Rivers and his supervisor, Michael Jalbert, stepped …
Five women are suing Maker’s Mark Distillery Inc. in federal court, claiming discrimination and sexual harassment. All of the women have worked on the bottling line, dipping the bottles of bourbon whiskey in red wax. Their suit claims the company …
Concord, Calif. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit by an employee who said she was sexually harassed by a female police officer. Wendy Schwartzenberger, a civilian community service officer, accused Lt. Robin Heinemann of unwelcome sexual remarks …
An Alabama city has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a former police sergeant who claims she’s been excluded from the department’s “good-old-boy network.” The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported that the deal avoids a trial, …
They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of being propositioned, …
Female workers are six times more likely than male workers to experience sexual harassment on the job, according to a report out of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Vanderbilt University economist Joni Hersch has calculated the first measures of sexual harassment …
A jury has awarded a Maine student $300,000 in a lawsuit she filed against a nursing school that expelled her after she complained of sexual harassment by a male instructor. The InterCoast Career Institute, a California-based school that operated a …
