Judge: Give Record Damages Payout To Woman Who Endured Harassment From Pervy Boss

[hrmjustin]

CELESTE KATZ
Being humiliated wasn’t in her job description — and now her pervy boss may pay a big price.

CARDENAS.jpgHere's the expanded version of my exclusive story for Tuesday's editions:

A judge says the city Human Rights Commission should award record damages of hundreds of thousands of dollars and back wages to a woman whose randy 88-year-old employer subjected her to appalling behavior — including come-ons, mockery and even neck-licking.

Monica Cardenas, 47, who quit her job at a meter-reading company in 2011 after three years of “severe and pervasive” harassment, deserves $200,000 for “emotional distress,” plus nearly $95,000 in wages, Administrative Law Judge Allessandra Zorgniotti said in a report issued Friday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2014/03/judge-give-record-damages-payout-to-woman-who-endured-harassment-from-pervy-bo

[DetlefK]

1. Okay. Neck-licking is sexual assault. He should have gone to jail.

Inappropriate talk is one thing, but actually touching her inappropriately? And repeatedly? And he got away with a fine?

[hrmjustin]

2. disgusting that he wasn't arrested.

[jeff47]

3. Different evidence rules.

It may be that the perv was smart enough to only harass the woman when there was no other witnesses, and leave no other evidence.

It's difficult to get a criminal conviction on "He said-she said". But this case is under civil rules, which does not include "reasonable doubt". Only "preponderance of the evidence".

[roguevalley]

5. he would still be looking for his old balls if he did that to me.

the worst boss story I ever heard was a secretary who had to clean her boss's dentures every morning.

[hrmjustin]

4. Kicking.