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Article: If an employer is unaware, is it sexual harassment? Supreme Court to consider lifeguard's, student's cases
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1998
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At 19, Beth Faragher got her dream job. She would work her way
through college as an ocean lifeguard for a city on Florida's gold
coast. Sun, sand, surf and $7 an hour.
Instead of bliss on a beach, she recalled, "the harassment started
almost immediately."
Over the next five years, from 1985 to 1990, Bill Terry and
another male supervisor often made vulgar and humiliating sexual
remarks to her and other female lifeguards, and patted, slapped or
squeezed various parts of their bodies.
Faragher said she was afraid to complain to her employer, the City
of Boca Raton, Fla., and was unaware of any city policy against
sexual harassment.
Eventually, Faragher quit to attend law school. She also ...