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Article

25 Feb 2011

Author:
Mark Waller, Times-Picayune [USA]

Woman receives $100,000 settlement in Belle Chasse sexual harassment case [USA]

Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services…has agreed to pay $110,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it fired an employee in Belle Chasse for refusing to have sex with her boss. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged that a male supervisor made inappropriate sexual comments, requested and demanded sexual favors, threatened termination, exposed his genitals and inappropriately touched Jauronice Hayes, 32…Hayes rejected the advances…After her firing, the supervisor called several times and offered to restore her job in exchange for sex…"We most categorically did deny any liability," said Thomas McCarthy, a St. Louis-based lawyer for Brand, on Friday…McCarthy said the company chose to settle the case to cap the cost of continuing litigation…