Labor & Employment Law

EEOC suit claims male-on-male harassment

EEOC has sued a retail and wholesale fish market, claiming that some of the owners and managers created a hostile work environment for male employees, including physical and verbal sexual harassment and offensive and degrading comments based on race and national origin.

EEOC also alleges that employees left because of the harassment and that the man who originally complained faced retaliation. To punish him for complaining, the EEOC said, managers instructed other employees not to speak to him, yelled at him when he spoke to others, assigned him more frequently to garbage duty and sent him home when he did speak to others.

[Press release]

Full post as published by Ross' Employment Law Blog on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).