Dawn Lafreeda is the owner- operator of 81 Denny’s restaurants all over the south and Midwest. Starting out as a waitress, Lafreeda knows what is like to be discriminated as a women and sexually harassed in a vulnerable work environment. In her article “Don’t Blame Tips for Sexual Harassment,” published in 2018 by The Wall Street Journal, she gives reasons why she disagrees with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and others open to the elimination of the lower minimum wage for workers who earn income primarily on tips, ultimately being the end of tipping (Lafreeda, 2018). For those who follow this idea, they are assuming that with higher wages, sexual harassment will be reduced since waitresses will not have to deal with certain disrespectful customers …show more content…
Sexual harassment is defined as any type of unwelcomed sexual advances, request, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. When women enter pink collar jobs, such as waitressing in most cases, unfortunately sexual harassment is something that happens often and they will be exposed through either seeing or experiencing themselves. The author of this article who is now a boss of many Denny’s, says “But that doesn’t describe the thousands of women I work with. Servers in my restaurants, especially women, don’t see tip income as a drawback…. Bad behavior is an occasional problem in any industry,” saying that sexual harassment is not something her waitresses deal with and its only an occasional problem (Lafreeda, 2018). However, as we have learned, many women who go through sexual harassment do not speak up for themselves with fear of getting fired, making the situation awkward, getting less hours, or getting no tip at all. Also with her position as a high ranking boss, I doubt waitresses would go to her if they were having any type of problems, rather go to their manager or other boss. Since she is not experiencing this problem herself she is assuming her workers would choose money over protection, sweeping sexual harassment under a rug once again- more ironically by a female. Intersectionality plays a role in this article as well because waitresses all over are being represented by a white, rich woman, from the south west. The author may say its not a problem to her workers because not only would she not hear about it but because maybe sexual harassment is not the same for white women as it is for any other racial women. Women with different skin colors, backgrounds, or cultures are the ones that are more fearful because if they lose their job, it would be hard to find a new one. Some customers may give them a harder time and
This case is about a lawsuit filed by an RCMP Corporal Catherine Galliford who alleged that her senior officers had sexually harassed her and she received numerous sexual advances from many senior officers since the time she graduated. Cpl. Catherine Galliford has been a prominent spokesperson for RCMP in some of the significant cases like Air-India bombings and revealing the arrest of Robert William Pickton, a serial killer. This case talks about how women are subjected to harassments in all forms of mental, physical and sexual in work places irrespective of the sector they work in. This paper also talks about loop holes which the organization takes advantage of and shy’s away from addressing the problem fearing public outrage and
People slave for a number of hours of work and find themselves with minimum wage salaries and working with people they don’t want to be around with. In her article Serving in Florida, Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as a low-wage worker for various jobs to expose the working conditions of working class Americans. Throughout her essay, she discusses how the employees are fearful of losing their jobs even though they are forced to work in inhumane conditions such as long hours, with no breaks between shifts. While undercover, Ehrenreich attempts to make an argument on how the upper and middle class can find it difficult to survive under minimum wage jobs and allow readers to figure out what can be done to change the restaurant business.
Brian Palmer’s “Tipping is an Abomination”, he tries to reach out to all types of audiences. He attempts to appeal to the emotional side to each audience. He often states that tipping “perpetuates” racism. African-Americans, on average, tip 3% less points than a white customer would have tipped. The tipping gap between Caucasian and Hispanics is even smaller. This fact can affect racial groups greatly. He also shows that this gives restaurant serves an excuse to serve different ethnic groups over other groups. This can anger others to know that they will be served differently and will not get the same respect from their server solely based on their ethnicity. He also often expresses to us that it not fair to waiter to have their tip based most commonly on their attitude and personality rather than their hard work and effort. Although he appeals to racial groups emotionally well, he fails to showcase the sexism side of tipping. It’s no surprise that female servers will most likely receive larger tips than a male server, regardless of the quality of the service. Overall, his article appeals emotionally to many types of
Chick-fil-a wants to provide a safe and positive working environment for all employees, whether male or female. Sexual harassment will not be tolerated, it’s an unwelcome verbal or non-verbal sexual advance, requests for sexual favors, other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, it is considers a form of discrimination based on gender. The law prohibits sexual harassment by supervisor’s coworkers and even people who are not employees of the company. The company has a duty to keep their workplace free of harassment.
Nayak, Rajesh, and Paul Sonn. Restoring the Minimum Wage for America’s Tipped Workers. Rep. National Employment Law Project, 2009. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. .
Sexual harassment is an important issue in every business; if left unattended it could cost companies millions in damages. In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment was a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From 1978 to 1980, sexual harassment cases brought against companies cost them $189 million. This number rose to $267 million from 1985-1987. Damages are just measured only by numbers. Sexual harassment can cause harm to a company's image, reputation, customers, as well as their revenue.
Sexual Harassment is unwanted sexual harassment by someone at work, be it a boss or another employee, this is what I have always thought how sexual harassment in the workplace was defined. It is so much more. Sexual harassment is now defined as telling someone they look nice, yes that is sexual harassment today. Telling someone they smell good, yes that is sexual harassment today. There are so many issues that can be considered sexual harassment that there are too many to name them all in this one research paper. You cannot pick up a newspaper or turn on the news without hearing about the latest sexual harassment case. This happens everywhere, big companies, small companies, movie stars, schools, restaurants, warehouses, bus drivers, all industries, no place is immune. . Human resource departments have to stay current on all examples of sexual harassment; they must keep current with all the legalities involved in educating staff and pursuing sexual harassment cases in the workplace.
Sexual harassment is so ordinary in the workforce that frequently we fail to even recognize harassing behavior as immoral. This is because so many of us--women and men alike--have become desensitized to offensive behaviors. Sexual harassment in any form is unacceptable behavior and should not be tolerated by anyone. It undermines our ability to study, to work, and to feel like effective, empowered people in the world.
THESIS STATEMENT: In today’s society 40 percent of the nation’s 55 million working women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
Each year many people first become aware of sexual harassment when they are harassed in the workplace. Today in the United States there still seems to be a need for general information about sexual harassment. Many people are unaware of exactly what sexual harassment is, how it affects its victims, where it happens, and what to do if it happens to them. There are many laws that protect people from sexual harassment and provide them with information about what to do if you should ever be in this situation (Wyatt, 2000).
gives all of us the right to be treated fairly and to take action if
One of the major problems in today’s working environment is sexual harassment that has continued to have significant impact on women. The prevalence of sexual harassment in the modern workplace is attributed to the fact that it takes many forms including rape, derogatory comments, unwanted sexual advances and threats, and sexual assault. Sexual harassment is a major problem because of its negative impact and consequences for employers in low-wage jobs. This is primarily because workers in this category of jobs can least afford having their livelihood threatened. Due to its impact, there have been several initiatives to end sexual harassment in the workplace including the enactment of The Fair Employment Protection Act, which provides crucial safeguards for employees from harassment.
According to Lim Woan Jinq (2015), "Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sex-related behavior that recipients take to be offensive, such as unwelcome verbal and non-verbal sexual behavior" (p.468). Most women experience sexual harassment for the simple reason that they are women, but it does not mean men don't experience it as well. There are two types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo harassment, which occurs when a person of authority demands that employees allow sexual harassment as a condition of getting or keeping a job or benefits, such as a pay raise. The second type is hostile work environment, which is a workplace that doesn't stop sexual harassment from happening. If conduct is unwelcome, based on sex, and severe enough to make an abusive work environment, then hostile work environment harassment can lead to legal action by the victim (Sexual
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a huge problem in recent history. It can happen to anyone and it can happen everywhere. It can affect all types of races, gender and age. Statistics today shows that more and more sexual harassment has become an issue due to the large number of cases presented. Mainstream media becomes consume covering sexual harassment because of the high profile cases. Sexual harassment becomes a topic on various TV shows, and on some major morning radio talk shows mostly everyday. Sexual harassment laws must be strengthened in order to fix what has become a serious problem today in the workplace.
In today’s workplace, sexual harassment is a growing problem. The legal definition of sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Another definition is the making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts, especially by one in a superior or supervisory position. Women and men of all ages, backgrounds, races and experience are harassed on the job. Sexual harassment encountered in workplaces is a hazard across the world that reduces the quality of working life, jeopardizes the well-being of women and men, undermines gender equality and imposes costs on firms and organizations.