As sexual harassment charges rise nationally, the U. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two sexual harassment lawsuits against employers on Sept. Don Durrett, the owner of the Edmond-based company said in a text message Friday, "We have not been made aware of any lawsuit against us with the EEOC so I have nothing to comment on at this time.
More: America's rape kit backlog was a national scandal. A decade later, problems persist. Johnston, commission assistant regional attorney. Texas, a border state, had the highest number of cases, which totaled or Florida, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania followed with the highest number of incidents. With the exception of California, the commission's data found most incidents took place in Southern and Eastern states between to It is unclear why.
Louis office, said in the news release. In some cases, business owners themselves engage in unlawful behavior. These cases demonstrate that work remains to be done.
District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma says. Female employees said the man engaged in unwanted and inappropriate touching. Specific examples included grabbing an employee's buttocks and waist, touching an employee's legs on a work trip, and pulling down an employee's thigh-high socks to her ankles, the suit says. The commission requested company policy changes and payment for punitive damages to multiple female employees.
At a paper mill and converting plant in Inola, sexual harassment escalation led to protective order after a year-old product line operator experienced daily verbal attacks from an older male worker, a suit filed by the commission in the Western District of Oklahoma says. Employed in October of , the female worker said she endured harassment from a fellow employee beginning early in her employment at the Sofidel facility.
