A fourth woman has accused Herman Cain of sexually inappropriate conduct in 1997. See CBS news report. The woman, Sharon Bialek, says the then head of the National Restaurant Association touched her inappropriately and suggested she cooperate if she wanted a job.
She had contacted Mr. Cain after she was laid off from a
Herman Cain says the ten year old sex harassment allegations against him are baseless. He denies any wrongdoing. See CBS news report. Yet, he admits the National Restuarant Association paid a settlement on the two separate chareges against him. One news report said the two settlements were in the five figures.
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Jamie Lee Jones, the KBR employee who claimed she was raped in Iraq and subjected to a hostile work environment has been ordered to pay $145,000 in court costs to KBR. See Houston Chronicle report. Ms. Jones acquired some fame when she testified before Congress about the need for reform regarding employment arbitration agreements.
A federal jury in Houston has returned a verdict against a former County Judge of $3.2 million. James Blackstock, a former Brazoria County Court-at-Law Judge and former head of the Juvenile Probation Board was sued for sexual harassment by three female employees of the Juvenile Probation department. The jury found the judge had created a
A federal district court jury in St. Louis found in favor of a woman claiming sexual harassment. They then awarded her $95 million, an unheard of amount in a single plaintiff case. The unlucky defendant was aaron’s Inc. formerly known as Aaron’s Rent-to-Own. See St. Louis Today report. 
The amount includes $15 million
In a recent decision, a federal court in Southern indiana ordered two plaintiffs to turn over their Facebook entries, wall postings, photos, groups joined, etc. See report. Mike Maslanka reports that the EEOC filed suit alleging sex harassment on behalf of two women. See EEOC v. Simply Storage Management, LLC. The Court
The Hewlitt Packard CEO, Mark Hurd, resigns in the middle of a sex harassment investigation. The investigation found other violations of other company policies. See report. It turns out that his expense reports were not accurate. Mr. Hurd admitted to integrity issues. Yet, the sex harassment probe supposedly found no infraction by Mr. Hurd.
Many employers completely prohibit relationships between management and subordinates. The military has some complicated rules regulating relationships and it too prohibits relationships between those with very different ranks. But, studies show, nevertheless, that relationships continue in the workplace. The workplace remains a prime source of marriage partners. But, the problems developing in the wake of
You’re a woman in a managerial position. You might think you are more removed from sexual harassment issues than your blue collar counterpart. No, says a recent study. a University of Minnesota Sociologist finds that sexual harassment is 137% more common among female managers than among blue collar women. Ms. McLaughlin concludes that because
Sexual harassment becomes more subtle in today’s climate, reports MSNBC. Instant Messaging, texting now allow more options to pursue an inappropriate relationship in more subtle ways. But, speaking as a lawyer, that might make things easier to prove, if the victim thinks to save the IM’s or text messages.