hostile work environment

EEOC Hit For $4.56 Million for Failing to “Properly” Investigate Sexual Harassment Claims

By Debra Reilly on February 16, 2010

Posted in Investigation Tips, Sexual Harassment

Last week, Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa, Linda Reade, issued an order requiring the EEOC to pay to Defendant CRST Van Expedited the sum of $4.56 million in attorney’s fees, expenses, and costs. Defendant CRST is a trucking company that the EEOC had sued in federal court alleging that a large…

Pornography Investigation at SEC Ongoing

By Debra Reilly on February 3, 2010

Posted in Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

According to a news article today at OneNewsNow, SEC employees are under investigation for viewing pornography on their work computers. Action ranging from counseling to dismissal has already been taken against some employees.

Rick Schatz of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families told OneNewsNow that pornography viewing has become a…

Throughout her 30-year legal career, Debra L. Reilly has conducted over 900 internal workplace investigations for various counties, municipalities (including police departments and fire departments), water districts, sanitation districts, transportation authorities, public and private elementary schools (K-12), private and public colleges and universities, the United States Postal Service (holding a “sensitive” security clearance by the Postal Inspector’s Office), and a multitude of private sector employers . Debra has conducted employment investigations throughout the United States and California. She has testified in depositions, arbitrations, and trial concerning the findings of her investigations. Given her legal training and litigation experience representing both management and employees, Ms. Reilly’s investigations are impartial, objective, and thorough. Ms. Reilly has also testified as an expert witness in Human Resources standard practices in conducting harassment and discrimination investigations, as well as Human Resources standard practices in conducting reasonable accommodation assessments of disabled employees and engaging in the interactive process.