Sexual Harassment Law Blog

The University of Rochester is paying 9 former students and professors $9.4 million to settle claims of sexual harassment in the school’s brain and cognitive sciences department. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed in 2017. That year students and faculty claimed misconduct by Professor...

We have written many times about sexual harassment under the golden arches. Tens of thousands of Americans had their first job at McDonalds. Flipping burgers for low pay and working weekends and after school. Some workers make it their career while seniors often turn to McDonalds for a part time...

The Grammys have long been criticized for failing to properly recognize female artists and artists of color. Now there is an explosive issue facing the 63-year-old parent organization of the awards, and it involves sexual harassment.
Each year, the Recording Academy, formally known as the...

The New Lisbon Developmental Center (“NLDC”), run by the state of New Jersey, is home to more than 450 developmentally disabled residents. These residents live in cottages in rural Pemberton Township. NLDC, established in 1914, is run by the New Jersey Department of Human Services....

Safie Specialty Foods Company, Inc. agreed in January to settle a federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation filed by two female workers, one of whom was a temporary employee.
When workers complained about the sexual...

After enduring sexual harassment from a pilot for years, a United Airlines flight attendant will receive $321,000 in damages, plus her legal fees, in a settlement between the airline and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”).
Although the woman repeatedly...

While the majority of sexual harassment cases involve men intimidating women, the roles are sometimes reversed. That is the case with a recent settlement involving fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle. A then-22-year old male manager at a San Jose outlet, Austin Melton, endured pervasive sexual...

The MeToo movement revealed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. Nearly 30 years ago, lawyer and academic Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment when both worked at the EEOC.
Thomas was confirmed by the Senate and still...

EEOC Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against United Airlines for Failing to Protect Flight Attendant Flight attendants have a difficult job. Although their primary job is passenger safety, they are more frequently treated as bar servers, maids, and worse. By worse, we mean that sometimes a passenger,...

Sexual harassment claims still account for nearly 17% of all claims received by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), with more than 6,750 complaints of sexual harassment filed in 2016 alone. And, the damage awards continue to grow.
A federal judge recently...