High-end New York Designer Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
In recent employment news that our Riverside Labor and Employment Attorneys have been following, a high-end New York fashion designer is suing her boss for egregious sexual harassment.
Maria Adamkiewiczm a designer at S. Rothschild & Co., the well known coat company, carrying labels such as Tommy Hilfiger and DKNY, filed a lawsuit yesterday in Manhattan, claiming that she had to resign from the company in 2008 because of enduring continual sexual harassment from her boss, Michael Kaufman.
According to the suit, Kaufman's harassment started in 2006, when he suggested that Adamkiewicz and a colleague buy sex toys to use with their boyfriends from a Hustler lingerie shop that he brought them to on a business trip in Los Angeles. In other allegations, Adamkiewicz claimed that Kaufman licked her hand during a meeting and asked jokingly if that constituted sexual harassment, and also dropped his pants on another occasion. In another instance Kaufman reportedly removed his belt in front of an employee and jokingly snapped the belt, claiming that he was going to whip her with it.
Adamkiewicz, who created design sketches and developed fabric designs for the company claimed to have filed a complaint with S. Rothschild & Company's president Mark Friedman about the sexual misconduct. Friedman reportedly admitted that he was aware of Kaufman's actions.
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