Sexual Harassment

If you’ve been checking the news recently, you probably saw some pretty juicy allegations about Kanye West’s behavior at Adidas.  Rolling Stone reported that (among other incidents): West told a female Adidas employee, “I want you to make me a shoe I can fuck;” West showed Adidas employees pornographic images and videos, including homemade sex tapes of him engaging in…

On February 23, 2018, Paige Fiedler and Emily McCarty filed a lawsuit on behalf of Patricia Carrillo against the State of Iowa, the Iowa Department of Transportation, and two DOT executives. KCCI reported the following details from the lawsuit: The 49-year-old was seeking a license when she was paired with John Alexander for the test at the Ankeny DOT station…

On January 18, 2018, Fiedler Law Firm PLC client Amy Ford settled her claims of sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation against the City of Anamosa Police Department and Police Chief Robert Simonson. News of the public settlement has raised questions about accountability and how to prevent something like this from happening again. At the February 12, 2018, City Council…

On December 27, 2017, Fiedler Law Firm, PLC filed a lawsuit against Wellman’s Pub and Rooftop, the bar’s General Manager, and two of the bar’s managers, on behalf of clients Kennedy and Sydney Feuerhelm and their mother, Mary Feuerhelm. The lawsuit alleges that a Wellman’s cook sexually harassed Kennedy and Sydney, who were both just 16 years old at the…

This week the New York Times published an article regarding the (in)effectiveness of going to H.R. to report sexual harassment. The article focuses on a woman, Emery Lindsley, who works in the hospitality industry and went to Human Resources (H.R.) at her former employer with a complaint of harassment. The H.R. person ignored Ms. Lindsley’s complaint. How did Ms. Lindsley…