Happy International Women’s Day! This year’s theme is building a gender-balanced world. The #BalanceforBetter campaign will continue for the rest of 2019 to inspire women and men to strive for a “gender-balanced boardroom, a gender-balanced government, gender-balanced media coverage, a gender-balance of employees, more gender-balance in wealth, gender-balanced sports coverage . . . .” Better balance between the genders is a timely theme because sexual harassment is a symptom of the power imbalance between the genders.…

The #MeToo movement has brought many things to light over the last year along with a lot of questions about what is considered sexual harassment and what to do about it. If you are interested in learning more about these issues, Lapin & Leichtling, LLP will be hosting a Lunch & Learn on March 19, 2019. We’ll be talking about how to recognize and respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. Lunch is free and…

New York City’s Upper East Side is in a tizzy because Nello, a local restaurant, has banned single women from eating at the bar because they might be escorts. That might sound outlandish, but the solicitation of customers by escorts seems to be an issue for some high end restaurants. I recently met with a server, we’ll call her Jane, who has worked for several local restaurants. According to Jane, she has seen escorts…

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ray v. International Paper Company, released on November 28, 2018, overturned a lower federal court’s decision to dismiss Tamika Ray’s sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and retaliation claims against her employer, International Paper Company, for lack of sufficient evidence to support her claims. The FourthCircuit found Ms. Ray had presented sufficient evidence to survive summary judgment and to allow a jury to decide her claims. Tamika Ray…

  Si usted tiene una demanda de acoso sexual laboral, lo que usted reporta inicialmente a la Comisión de Igualdad de Oportunidades de Empleo (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission en inglés), y cómo lo reporta, puede afectar su demanda legal en las cortes. Antes de interponer una demanda de acoso sexual laboral en contra de su empleador bajo el Título VII de las leyes de Estados Unidos, la vícitma debe de primero presentar cargos con…

A Florida appellate court reversed a lower trial court’s decision to summarily dispose of a guidance counselor’s workplace sexual harassment claim against the Broward County School Board for the conduct of the principal of the school where she worked. The lower court had ruled that Cherellda Branch-McKenzie, the guidance counselor, did not provide evidence to support her claim sufficient for proceeding to trial. The Fourth District disagreed with the lower court in Branch-McKenzie v. Broward …