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Article

5 Mar 2014

Author:
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes (USA)

Sexual Harassment Still ‘Normal’ in Low-Wage Jobs [USA]

...The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the restaurant industry is the largest source of sexual harassment claims…[T]he Coalition of Immokalee Workers…finds harassment of women farmworkers to be pervasive. In a national survey of 4,300 restaurant workers…more than one in 10 workers reported that they or a co-worker had experienced sexual harassment…A 2010 study of farmworker women found 80 percent had experienced sexual harassment at work… [Refers to Applebee’s, Cracker Barrel (part of CBRL Group), Denny’s, IHOP, KFC (part of YUM!), McDonald’s, Ruby Tuesday, Sonic]