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Article

25 Apr 2008

Author:
Tyche Hendrics, San Francisco Chronicle [USA]

$1 million sexual harassment verdict upheld [USA]

A Central Valley farmworker who won a $1 million sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, beef behemoth Harris Farms, has been vindicated by a federal appeals court in San Francisco, which upheld a trial court's verdict. Olivia Tamayo...sued the company in 2002 with the help of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that she had been repeatedly raped by her supervisor and faced retaliation from the company when she reported the abuse... A Harris Farms executive said he was disappointed in the court's decision... Harris Farms...[is] the corporate parent of Harris Ranch Beef...