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Did a Double Standard Apply to a Male Victim of Sexual Harassment? Kindergarten Teacher at Southwestern Central School District Files Charge with the EEOC for Sexual Harassment

Friedman & Houlding LLP represents a current employee of Southwestern Central School District (“Southwestern”) who complained multiple times to higher-ups about continuing sexual harassment from his coworker without any follow-up, according to the Charge he filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Two different principals on two separate occasions failed…

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Do Additional Sworn Allegations of Disability Discrimination at Ameriserve Int.’l Show a Pattern of Disability Discrimination?

The outpouring of support for the woman who filed an EEOC Charge alleging she was fired after disclosing she had been diagnosed with cancer has been overwhelming and unprecedented. Nearly 1,000 people expressed their feelings on Facebook, more than 100 wrote deeply sympathetic comments, and 12 shared similar experiences of…

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Threats of Racial Violence Must Never Be Tolerated

Our firm represents an African-American man in North Dakota, who recently filed Charges of Discrimination with a federal agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In his first Charge he alleges racial harassment and retaliation against his former employer, Ironworks Welding, after two workers re-enacted “mock” lynchings; in his second…

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Managing Director of Bright Data Won’t Take No for an Answer – According to EEOC Charge Filed by Former Employee of Bright Data, Inc.

Bright Data, Inc. is a Delaware corporation and subsidiary of an Israel-based company, Bright Data Ltd. The Company’s United States headquarters are in New York City. As alleged in her Charge of Discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, our client’s second-level supervisor, a Managing Director, engaged in inappropriate…

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EEOC Charge: Veolia Nuclear Solutions Human Resources Explicitly Refuses to End Harassment Against Transgender Employee

Friedman & Houlding LLP represents a transgender female (“Charging Party”), who has filed an EEOC Charge of harassment and retaliation against her former employer Veolia Nuclear Solutions (“Veolia”), a federally contracted company that carries out nuclear energy facility clean-up and waste removal, at its Richland, Washington location. As alleged in…

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A Newport News, Virginia welder for Skanska USA Building, Inc. was sexually harassed by her high-level supervisor—then abruptly fired when she refused to entertain his advances – according to recently filed EEOC Charge.

Nakeya Livermon worked as a welder for Skanska, where she participated in building infrastructure for the Portsmouth waterside. Livermon was the only female welder on site. She was known to be an excellent welder, in an industry that has few female welders at all. As her foreman noted:   Skanska…

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Worker at Disability Residential Services Company, Ameriserve International, Inc., Fired for Having Cancer in Violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act – Friedman & Houlding LLP Files Charges with EEOC

Ameriserve International, Inc. (“Ameriserve”), an Iowa-based provider of residential services to those with intellectual disabilities, fired one of its employees because of her cancer diagnosis, in blatant violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965 (“ICRA”), and its own stated mission, according…

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Annandale Millwork Files Statements with a Government Agency in the Midst of a Sexual Harassment Investigation That Have False Information

The EEOC requires that the employer file an Opposition Statement. Annandale did so. It included statements that are false. Knowingly submitting a false statement would be plainly intended to mislead a federal agency’s investigation. In opposition to the Charge that the Design Manager engaged in physical and verbal sexual harassment…

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Encompass, a Major Hospital Chain, Threatens to Fire Women who Complain about Sexual Harassment

This is the third in a series of blog pieces written for and reviewed by the Charging Parties which explains their ordeal    The CEO, the Head of Human Resources and the Therapy Team Leader Threaten to Fire Women who Complain about Sexual Harassment at Encompass, a Major Hospital Chain   …

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FOLLOWING WHSV3 REPORT ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT ANNANDALE FOUR WITNESSES COME FORWARD TO CORROBORATE THE VICTIMS ALLEGATIONS

Since a story aired in on WHSV3 in August regarding sexual harassment Charges filed with the EEOC by two former employees against Annandale Millwork and Allied Systems for ignoring complaints of sexual harassment by the “Design Manager” (referred to as the “Manager” in first blog post), four former employees of…

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