Employment Law Blog

WeWork has been beset by multiple employment actions that suggest a change in culture is overdue. Claims for gender, racial and pregnancy discrimination have all been filed against the commercial real estate company in recent years. 

A former human resources employee, Ayesha Whyte, recently filed a lawsuit against WeWork that alleges gender and racial discrimination. WeWork initially offered Whyte, an African American woman, the position of Director of Employee Relations along with a salary of $195,000. 

A recent study released by the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University shows that female supervisors face the highest rates of sexual harassment. 

Researchers evaluated data taken from female employees across the United States, Sweden and Japan. Overall, female supervisors were 30 to 100 percent more likely to be sexually harassed at work than female employees who were further down in the company hierarchy.

Ride-sharing giant Uber is paying for a company culture that repeatedly tolerated sexual harassment. A verdict earlier this month resolves charges brought against the company in 2017 that forces Uber to pay victims from a $4.4 million fund.

In one of the largest verdicts ever for an employment sexual harassment case, Allred, Maroko & Goldberg won a $58.25 million verdict on behalf of Mahim Khan- $50 million in punitive damages and $8.25 million in compensatory damages after she suffered battery, sexual battery and sexual harassment from her former employer, billionaire entrepreneur Alki David. This was one of the highest awards ever seen in an employment sexual harassment case in the United States.

Khan is one of several women who worked at Alki David's media companies who has filed sexual harassment and battery suits against him.