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NEW! Furniture Today by Jay McIntosh, June 9, 2011 - Plaintiff awarded $95 million in harassment suit against Aaron's - In her complaint, Alford said she was employed at an Aaron's store in Fairview Heights, Ill., in 2005 and 2006 and claimed that the store manager, Richard Moore, made verbal sexually offensive comments to her, inappropriately touched her and eventually sexually assaulted her. She said she complained to her supervisor and called a company hotline but no action was taken to end the harassment.

New York Times, May 2011 - IT was morning rounds in the hospital and the entire medical team stood in the patient’s room. A test result was late, and the patient, a friendly, middle-aged man, jokingly asked his doctor, "Whom he should yell at?" Turning and pointing at the patient’s nurse, the doctor replied, “If you want to scream at anyone, scream at her.”
This vignette is not a scene from the medical drama “House,” nor did it take place 30 years ago, when nurses were considered subservient to doctors. Rather, it happened just a few months ago, at my hospital, to me.

EEOC v. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., 7th Circuit Court, Case No. 10-1239, April 29, 2011, - Since the beginning of my employment, my Branch Manager has subjected me to different terms and conditions of employment. On or about October 5, 2005, I was disciplined for not meeting sales quotas, whereas a non-Black similarly situated co-worker was not disciplined for not meeting his quota. On or about October 21, 2005, I complained to [the] Human Resources Department about race discrimination.

SHRM - HR Magazine, April 2011 - Cheryl Eckard repeatedly warned senior managers at GlaxoSmitbKline that defective drugs went being produced at its Puerto Rico plant. Rather than address the problems, they fired her. Eckard filed a whistle-blower suit. Last October, GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the Company knowingly sold contaminated drugs made at the now-closed plant. Eckard received $96 million.