Category Archive for : ‘EMPLOYER’

May 4, 2021
SM Daily Journal

A manager of La Hacienda Market in San Mateo who allegedly sexually groped and assaulted two women working at the store and threatened to fire them if they spoke up faces multiple felony charges, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Fernando Martinezagustin, 43, of San Mateo, is accused of groping and digitally penetrating two women, aged 29 and 37, on separate occasions over four months in 2020 and 2021, prosecutors said. The two women were employed at the market and supervised by him. Martinezagustin

July 18, 2020
Ellie Kaufman, Pete Muntean, Laura Robinson
CNN

(CNN)The Washington Redskins have launched an internal investigation after 15 former female employees and two journalists who covered the team accused team staffers of sexual harassment and verbal abuse, the team told CNN.
The allegations were first reported by The Washington Post on Thursday. The newspaper obtained screenshots of text messages in which Richard Mann II — the team’s assistant director of pro personnel — made inappropriate, sexual comments to a female employee. Mann was fired in the past week.
Former employees also accused Larry

May 20, 2020
Madison Pearman
Wavy

MATHEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday evening, charging a man from Mathews County with production of child pornography and coercion and enticement of a child.
10 On Your Side first reported the story of William Wellington “Billy” Hooper, Jr., 53, in November 2019. At the time, Hooper’s arrest was confirmed by authorities after he was accused of asking an underage employee working on his boat to take pornographic photos in exchange for money.
They believe a female juvenile was working on Hooper’s 59-foot yacht —

December 3, 2019
TRT World

Greek billionaire Alkiviades “Alki” David was ordered to pay $58 million in damages to a Hollywood assistant in one of the largest sexual harassment awards in US history, her attorney said Monday.
David, an heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune who has also battled recent lawsuits over his 3D hologram and online streaming businesses, was accused of routinely groping Mahim Khan.
The verdict was “a reminder to predators everywhere to not think they can get away with hurting others”, Khan said in a statement.
Attorney Gloria Allred described it as

November 13, 2019
Karen McVeigh
The Guardian

The head of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has vowed to take “aggressive” action against sex abusers, following an internal survey that found multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault at the agency.
“If we have a claim of rape by anyone in the WFP, if we can substantiate, I can’t begin to tell you how aggressive” actions will be, executive director David Beasley told news agency Associated Press.
At least 28 employees said they had experienced rape, attempted rape or sexual assault while working at WFP.
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October 1, 2019
Martin Evans
Telegraph
 
 

A junior lawyer broke down in tears as she described how she was too embarrassed to go to the police after she woke up to find her married boss groping her in bed.

The woman claimed, Ryan Beckwith, 41, a senior partner at the Magic Circle law firm where she worked, took advantage of her when she got “exceptionally drunk” at an office gathering.

Giving evidence from behind a screen at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described how Mr Beckwith