Luxury Goods In-House Lawyer Sues Employer for Alleged Harassment
The vice president of legal affairs & litigation counsel of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. sued her employer, claiming executives shrugged off her complaints of sexual harassment as “a byproduct of being an attractive woman who works at a company with a French culture.”
The New York Post reports that plaintiff Andowah Newton claims her harasser — a “senior level management employee” whom she doesn’t name — frequently ogled her and once said, “You are so pretty. And that beautiful smile, I just can’t get enough of it.” He also made unwanted physical contact with her, she said.
The company’s response to her initial complaints is laughable, court documents say, because “none of the individual actors in this matter is, in fact, French.”
Read the New York Post article.
