Here are example hostile environment sexual harassment court cases. These cases were completed by the EEOC.
Hostile Work Environment
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a settlement with London International Group, LLC (LIG) in a lawsuit charging the Eufaula-based plant, which manufactures condoms, with subjecting a class of employees to a hostile work environment in which they have been subjected to numerous racially and sexually derogatory cartoons and comments since 1995.
Award: $625,000 in monetary damages
EEOC v. Cheap Tickets, et al., Case Number CV-02–7117-WJR (VBKx) alleges that, dating back to 2000; female agents working at Cheap Tickets’ Los Angeles Call Center were subjected to a sexually hostile work environment by their supervisors. Moreover, EEOC says that the woman who filed the initial discrimination charge was subjected to retaliation.
Award: $1,100,000 in monetary damages
Gurtz, an electrical subcontractor, and defendant Pickus, a general construction contractor, subjected female workers to a sexually hostile work environment. The complaint alleged that Pickus and Gurtz permitted sexually explicit and offensive graffiti about women in portable toilets and in other areas of the construction site and ignored sexually offensive remarks made to the charging party, a female electrician employed by Gurtz, who was an explicit target of some of the graffiti.
Award: $50,000 in compensatory damage
In this Title VII suit, the San Francisco District Office alleged that a female charging party and two other female restaurant employees were subjected to physical and verbal sexual harassment by their supervisor. Defendant, a high-end restaurant in Hawaii, took no corrective action despite two of the women’s complaints to the general manager and thus the conduct continued. However, after a complaint by the third woman to corporate headquarters, defendant investigated the matter and fired the supervisor.
Award: $245,000 in monetary damages
Supermercados Conchita, a supermarket chain in Puerto Rico, subjected charging party to same-sex sexual harassment. The male owner/general manager of the supermarkets subjected charging party (who had been hired as a bagger but was rapidly moved into management) to sexual comments, inappropriate touching, and sexual invitations.
Award: $142,500 in monetary damages
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