Jury awards $425,000 in Penfield Subway sexual harassment case [View all]
Justice prevailed in a federal courtroom in Rochester recently when a jury awarded $425,000 to a woman who was fired from her job managing a Subway restaurant in Penfield after complaining about relentless sexual harassment by her supervisor.
“I cried,” the plaintiff, Sherielee Figueroa, said of hearing the verdict. “I cried so hard and not because I wanted the money. It was more like I found justice. It made me feel complete.”
The award was bolstered by punitive damages of $275,000, an amount that, in this case, exceeds the federal statutory cap for such damages and that her lawyer said sends a message in the #MeToo era.
“Employers should know that when you do this to someone, it sends shockwaves of damage all over, and I think the jury understood that,” said her lawyer, Anthony LaDuca.
Read more: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/andreatta/2018/07/20/jury-awards-woman-425-000-penfield-subway-sexual-harassment-case/806153002/
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