George Moschopoulos
$2M Sexual Harassment Verdict for Short-Term, Part-Time Employee. No Experts. No Economic Losses
January 13, 2025 ||TLU n Demand
The client is a 40-year old Arab Christian woman who was hired as an accountant at a medium development company (about 30 employees) owned by Arab Muslims who knew her family. The owner, a 60-plus-year old man, started flirting with Pltf not long after she started. He had her working exclusively with him and started frequently having her accompany him to properties in his car and they would then stop for lunch.
During several lunches he started talking about his wife, how she was crazy, how she found out he had a girlfriend in Lebanon and tracked his phone, that a guy at the carwash had discovered a tracker on his car, etc. In the office on one occasion, he told Pltf she needed a sugar daddy and that he could set her up in an apartment and that he only "needed it once a week."
About 2 ½ months into her employment the wife stopped in the office and got in Pltf's face saying she (wife) was "The Madame", an Arab expression meaning the wife/boss/queen. It was a very hostile encounter that shook up Pltf and Pltf complained to the owner about it. About 2-3 weeks later, Pltf got a call from the owner saying he had to let her go, and he said, "my wife is coming back from Lebanon today and you have to be gone by the time she gets back." All of this was denied and Defendants claimed Pltf was incompetent and had severe performance issues.
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