Last year employment discrimination charges reached a record high, and early indications suggest 2011 could be a new record-setter
Jennifer Green was the only female in her department. Every day, the computer-aided drafting technician at Richardson (Tex.)-based engineering company Childress Engineering Services said, she was subjected to "a relentlessly offensive, sexually hostile working environment because of my sex," including comments about "masturbation, sexist comments about women, oral sex, gay jokes, anal sex, and ‘banging a whore’ " from her male co-workers. "I cannot recall a work day at Childress when I was not subjected to sexually offensive language," she stated in her charge.
Green, who started working at Childress in 2006 at age 34, complained of sex-based discrimination to the company and later to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a move, she said, that got her fired. The EEOC sued Childress, and in May 2011 the company settled the lawsuit, agreeing to pay $55,000 in damages, back pay, and attorney’s fees. Among other requirements, the company must now revise its sexual harassment policy and conduct annual training for five years on the laws against sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace.
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