All posts tagged "Workplaceharassment"

NEW YORK — A young woman who worked at Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey was sexually harassed and tricked into signing a nondisclosure agreement by one of the former president’s top lawyers, according to a lawsuit she filed Wednesday. Alice Bianco worked as a server at Trump National in Bedminster for a few months in 2021. Shortly after Bianco was hired in May of that year, her boss Pavel Melichar began making sexual advances toward her, according to the lawsuit. Trump and Melichar are not defendants in the suit, which names only Trump National. Bianco, who was 21 when she was hired, att......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused Chipotle of religious harassment and retaliation after a manager at a Johnson County restaurant grabbed and partly removed a Muslim employee’s hijab when she refused his demands to see her hair. The EEOC filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, on behalf of Areej Saifan, who worked at the Chipotle Mexican Grill. The EEOC contends in the three-count suit that Chipotle deprived Saifan of equal employment opportunities because of the harassment based on her Muslim faith, the hostile work en......

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth crane company subjected four Black employees to racial discrimination and harassment, including hanging nooses in the workplace, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit filed Thursday against TNT Crane & Rigging Inc. In a news release, the EEOC said TNT Crane & Rigging created a hostile work environment for the Black employees through the open display of nooses and white supremacy symbols, along with being subjected to derogatory terms and racial slurs by employees and managers. The EEOC also charged the company, which has over 40 br......

NEW YORK — An alleged swastika-scrawling skinhead was arrested on hate crime charges after an eagle-eyed Daily News reader recognized the wanted man walking on a Brooklyn street before flagging down a pair of beat cops. William Klare, 40, of the Bronx, was busted Friday afternoon on multiple charges for the vile attack this past Tuesday where he allegedly scrawled a huge swastika inside a local business. The arrest followed his random encounter with a freelance photographer who remembered the man’s picture from the morning newspaper. “It looked just like him so I followed him,” said Dan Pollac......

Despite strong opposition, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s new rule governing libraries will go into effect later this spring, threatening public libraries’ state funding over providing minors with books deemed pornographic or obscene. Ashcroft, a Republican who recentlylaunched a campaign for governor, last fall proposed the rule, barring public library employees from granting minors access to materials without first receiving parental permission. His office received 20,000 public comments on the proposal, including criticism from librarians across the state who argue it amounts to......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — City Manager Brian Platt on Friday said a report released this week on racism and sexism in the Kansas City Fire Department again showed the pressing need for city leaders to take immediate action to change the department’s culture. “We’ve taken significant steps to address and mitigate a number of challenging cultural issues within KCFD over the last two years,” Platt told The Star. “This report confirms our urgent need to continue to push for changes to better serve our employees and our residents.” The 163-page report delivered to the Kansas City Council Wednesday reveale......