I was doing a debrief of students who had completed an internship over the summer. One female student indicated in her report that she had been sexually harassed during her internship. Even worse, she was being sexually harassed by a male supervisor who had two sexual harassment charges pending with the EEOC. It gets worse. Apparently, the general manager refused to believe that the supervisor was engaging in sexual harassment and attempting to settle out of court. In other words, the business is condoning sexual harassment instead of addressing the matter by taking disciplinary action aimed at protecting the female employees from a known predator.
My appeal today is that sexual harassment -- in all its forms -- needs to be taught to students so that they understand that is not a permissable behavior under any circumstances in restaurants or hotels, both chain and independent. This is especially critical for students to understand given our industry is one that has the most sexual harassment charges filed against it on a regular basis. Sadly, the charges are quite often due to a male harassing a teenage female. So for the sake of our male and female students and an industry that is rampant with sexual harassment please do all you can to educate our graduates to be better people.
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