"Yonkers sugar refinery worker gets $13.4M after suing over sexual harassment, gender discrimination", 6 Mar 2018

...A Yonkers sugar refinery worker...won $13.4 million in her lawsuit against the company...Rosanna Mayo-Coleman...received the...judgment against Domino Sugar’s parent company...following a four-day jury trial in Manhattan Federal Court.  Mayo-Coleman filed suit against American Sugar Holding in January 2014, alleging she had endured sexual discrimination at the refinery, where she has worked since 1988.  The work environment started to deteriorate in summer 2008, after Mayo-Coleman's new boss saw her in "street clothes" as she left the refinery one day, court papers claim...At least one supervisor tried to intervene but the human resources department did nothing to effectively stop Smith, according to her lawyers...Mayo-Coleman ultimately filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in fall 2012.  Smith left the refinery around mid-2013.  Despite Smith's departure, Mayo-Coleman insists she was still treated differently because of her gender...[T]he verdict will likely be disputed.