Gbl Paper

Article Title: Call-center worker's $12M sexual harassment verdict tough to claim

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/08/11/sexual-harassment-verdict-claim/31497309/

Summary: Rennenger Danielle and her co-worker Jill Zwagerman, who worked at an Indianola call center were called “ whores” and “sluts”, and even forced to sit on male co-worker’s lap. When Rennenger and her co-worker Zwagerman complained to the company, they were both got fired. Finally, Rennenger and her co-worker Zwagerman decided to sue the following four companies for sexual harassment: “Manley Toy Direct LLC., Toy Network LLC., SLB Toys USA Inc. (known as Toy Quest), and Aquawood LLC.. Rennenger won her case last week and gained an $11.9 million verdict in Rennenger’s favor, including $10 million in punitive damages against the four companies.” (Rodgers,2015)

Ethical Analysis: “Rennenger Danielle and her co-worker Jill Zwagerman had been told they would face big challenge and tough legal battle by suing any one of four separately organized, but interconnected, California and Iowa-based toy corporations that Jurors held accountable for the sexual harassment they suffered.”(Rodgers 2015) “Zwagerman contends that the maze of corporate structure was intended to protect companies form lawsuits by leaving plaintiffs’ lawyers spinning their wheels.” (Rodgers 2015) One unethical part about this event is that the unequal power between the companies the workers, and also the unequal cost to workers and companies when the workers report the sexual harassment. “According to the survey done by the Cosmopolitan, out of the 2,235 full-time and part-time women who said they were experienced workplace sexual harassment, only 29% reported the issue while 71% did not, but 81% of 2,235 women had experienced harassment in verbal form.”(Vagianos, 2015) I assume the reason why they choose not to report the sexual harassment is the large cost they have to paid for lawsuit and the challenge law...