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Tag Archives: what constitutes sexual harassment
More than one-third of the sexual harassment lawsuits reported by the federal government this year involved the food industry, according to an MSNBC article published on November 1, 2011. The sexual harassment allegations against presidential candidate Herman Cain during his time with the National Restaurant Association led to the MSNBC investigation that found that 26 of the 75 sexual harassment lawsuits this year involved the restaurant industry. MCNBC quoted a 2002 study by hospitality professors from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, “Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry,” which said, “The restaurant industry is especially susceptible to incidents of sexual harassing behaviors due to certain social characteristics. The most obvious is that of restaurants attracting or recruiting employees with ‘outgoing personalities.’” MSNBC used the Fox television show “Hell’s Kitchen” as an example of the hostile working environments in the restaurant industry, but the sexually charged atmosphere does not excuse that form or…
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Posted in General Labor and Employment, Harassment
Tagged christine nazer, hell’s kitchen, herman cain, los angeles employment attorney, los angeles employment lawyer, national restaurant association, quid pro quo, restaurant industry, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, university of southwestern louisiana, what constitutes sexual harassment
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Chicago woman Sharon Bialek became the fourth woman to make sexual harassment allegations against presidential candidate Herman Cain, but she was the first woman to do so publicly. During a press conference in New York City on November 7, 2011, Bialek said she sought Cain’s help after losing her job at the National Restaurant Association when he placed his hand up her skirt. Bialek’s allegations are also the first that did not involve the harassment occurring while employed at the restaurant association during Cain’s tenure as president. However, one would hope that perhaps a public face will reduce some of the ignorance regarding sexual harassment in general. Ever since the website Politico first wrote about the issue on Halloween, there have been a disturbing number of pundits not so much defending Cain as they are denying the very concept of sexual harassment. In the National Review, John Derbyshire began a…
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Tagged anita hill, fred thompson, herman cain, john derbyshire, laura ingraham, los angeles employment attorneys, los angeles employment lawyers, national restaurant association, national review, new york city, politico, quid pro quo, sharon bialek, what constitutes sexual harassment
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We mentioned last week that MTV was facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former field clearance coordinator and production coordinator, but on October 28, 2011, the Hollywood Reporter said that former “Real World” cast member Tonya Cooley has now filed a lawsuit against the network and Bunim/Murray Productions. Cooley alleges she was victim to sexual abuse during the Thailand season of “The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.” The Reporter noted that when the Village Voice published a standard “Real World” cast member contract in August, “many were still shocked just how far it went and whether the network really needed to insulate itself from liability from such acts as cast members possibly being humiliated or forced into ‘non-consensual physical contact.’” In addition to graphic accusations that include the network filming her being raped with a toothbrush by two male cast members while passed out, Cooley’s complaint “repeatedly states either the…
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Posted in General Labor and Employment, Harassment
Tagged bunim/murray productions, california labor code, civil rights act, los angeles employment attorney, los angeles employment lawyer, mtv, quid pro quo, real world, road rules, title vii, tonya cooley, what constitutes sexual harassment
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After MTV launched a multi-year initiative to combat digital harassment in December 2009, the network is now facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former field clearance coordinator and production coordinator for its own reality series, “The Hills.” The Toronto Sun reported on October 19, 2011, that Eliza Sproul claims that she was sexually harassed, pressured to smoke drugs, denied meal and rest breaks and ultimately denied overtime and other pay in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Sproul says that MTV failed to secure a work visa for everyone when the show took the crew to Costa Rica in May 2010, leaving her paired with a local resident named Andres who made repeated sexual advances and pressured Sproul to smoke marijuana with him in the forest. According to the Sun, she claims “other employees immediately began making jokes, insinuating the two had engaged in sexual activity” when Sproul returned from…
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