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Feds battling sex harassment investigate 1 of their own
EEOC probing Miami supervisor accused of demanding sex from workers
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is tasked with investigating, among other issues, sexual harassment in employment scenarios across the country.
Including claims against its own supervisors.
The agency has confirmed a probe into a regional supervisor who has been accused by subordinates of exchanging sex for favorable treatment at work.
A government publication report the supervisor, Katherine Gonzalez of the Miami District Office, is accused of “engaging in sexual quid pro quo arrangements with subordinates.”
“She’s accused of proposing sex to male employees in exchange for more favorable treatment at work. Those who rebuffed her advances, according to multiple individuals in the office, were subject to increased workloads, given the most complex cases to investigate, and tasked with running her personal errands,” according to the GovExec.com report.
“The exact details of the probe remain under wraps, but some employees in the office shared their version of events,” the report said.
“One employee in the Miami office who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation alleged that he was pressured into having sex with Gonzalez. He told Government Executive the incidents began almost immediately after he started working at the Miami office. Gonzalez, who was his supervisor, pushed her breasts against him multiple times in his first week, he said, and things escalated from there. She began asking for favors, food and gifts. She demanded the employee, who was married, bring her flowers on Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. All of the requests came with an implication that she would ruin his work life if he did not comply, he said.
“The investigation followed informal complaints that started in 2015 and continued into 2016. Then last year employees presented a formal written complaint to the Miami district director, including a photograph an employee had snapped when Gonzalez exposed her breasts to those in the office,” the report said.
The government watchdog Judicial Watch said it was a “curious twist” that has the agency “responsible for enforcing the nation’s workplace discrimination laws” in this position.
Judicial Watch accused the EEOC of “trying to keep it quiet.”
“While its own house is in disarray, the EEOC is known for overreaching and aggressively hounding private businesses and government agencies over questionable cases of discrimination,” Judicial Watch said.
“Under the Obama administration the EEOC shattered records in its mission to eradicate workplace discrimination, mainly by filing high-profile cases that earned large settlements for ‘vulnerable groups’ such as immigrant and migrant workers. American businesses that didn’t accommodate Muslims were especially targeted and that didn’t necessarily change when Donald Trump moved into the White House,” the watchdog said.
“In fact, earlier this year Judicial Watch reported that the Trump EEOC sued a security company for refusing to modify its g***ming standards for a Muslim employee. The firm was accused of religious discrimination because the Muslim employee requested the g***ming exemption in accordance with his ‘sincerely held religious beliefs.’ The security firm eventually settled with the government, the security guard got $90,000 in damages and the company had to hire an equal employment monitor and revise its religious accommodation policies,” Judicial Watch said.
Jeez, I h**e hearing about WOMEN indulging in sexual harassment. I fought to be considered just another worker in my job in aerospace. When I was young and a lot skinnier, I could have told you stories about males doing that, which would have curled your hair. They often knew my Navy husband was gone up to 7 months at a time, or later, as he served on 'boomers' (nuclear ballistic missile subs), when he was 3 months gone, three months home, I never said word one about his presence or absence. But the male engineers were nearly relentless in their comments and actual demands for sex. One jerk who was a minor supervisor actually said "Do me or lose your job." I shot back "Hell. There is NO job I need that bad!" I never gave in, was never any man's doormat. In fact, I usually got him in front of his buddies and embarrassed him so badly, that his buddies laughed at HIM. In one major aerospace company, I learned of young women who felt frightened, and who needed their jobs, being hassled into having sex with an engineer up in the 'stacks; - a place where all drawings for the various aircraft were stored - ON COMPANY TIME. And those are the most minor incidents. Now, to hear of a woman doing the same thing, is so disappointing to me, and to all women who worked hard to just do the job. I guess it is not about sex, but about some jerk's notion of having power over others. Male jerks, female jerks. Seems it never changes. Fire her sexist ass! And one other change I would love to see: If two people are married, but not to each other, and their affair becomes known, BOTH of them should be fired! Not just one of them. Then we might be able to stop this nonsense. But, what if one of them is the CEO? I guess the courts would be her only choice. Or his. There is so much nonsense that goes on in the workplace. It sickens me. I was even told once, that I was taking a 'man's job.' Nope. I had the better portfolio.
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