Sexual Harassment At Kay And Jared Jewelry Company

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When using your inner voice, no one can hear your pain and suffering until you decide to speak up! More than 2 hundred former and current employees decide to stand up and come out of the darkness to disclose their sexual harassment experiences at Kay and Jared Jewelry Company. First, I will discuss some of the allegation details from current and former employees’ complaints. Secondly, the negative impact the work environment creates when you are abusing the position power and how it will negative impact and the reactions of the American workforce. According to Washington Post one of the former employees Kristin Henry was fired when she reports the sexual harassment assault from a district manager when he try to kiss and touch her. (Washington Post, 2017) Several females current and former employees decide to come out of the dark of pain and discuss this issue. This issue exist since the 1990’s time frame. The sexual harassments were verbal and sexual advances from their supervisors. They are two types of harassments. …show more content…

You should be promote it for your hard work, dedication and accomplishments, not by sexual acts or favors. Also, some of the allegations were the supervisors would isolate the female workers and invite them to private parties for a sexual exchange for a better position or transfer to move up their chain. For instance, when the company had a manager meeting annual party one of the rules of engagement was a no-spouse-allowed “sex-fest” (Washington Post, 2017) One of the main perpetrator was Chief Executive Officer Mark Light. The other type of sexual harassment is the hostile work environment. Several managers were accused of name calling and unwelcome advances towards other

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