Former Lowe’s Workers Win $1.72 Million Sexual Harassment Suit

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11801

As Jesse Russell reports, three former Lowe’s employees have been awarded $1.72 million in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

The three employees worked at one of the company’s hardware stores in Longview, Washington. Two of the employees said they were being harassed by co-workers who thought they were gay and a third employee was a female who had allegedly been harassed by a supervisor. The three workers will split the settlement which is the largest such settlement ever awarded per employee in the western United States. Under the settlement Lowe’s will revise anti-harassment and anti-retaliation policies and provide extensive anti-harassment training to employees.