Airport tried to force sexual harassment lawyer to "tone down" her ad. She sued and now she has a giant billboard
I really feel sorry for anyone working at Syracuse Airport and experiencing harrassment.
The lawyer's ad says "When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A." The airport refused to post the ad twice, asking her to "tone down" and "soften" the language each time. Direct quote from the article:
>Once again, it [the airport] refused to run the ad, arguing "the proposed slogan falsely implies that conduct considered to be ‘harmless flirting’ is necessarily actionable harassment."
Can you imagine how many times employees there might have gone to HR for support with workplace sexual harassment and had it dismissed as harmless? Can you imagine the hubris it takes to try and tell a lawyer - a successful working professional whose area of expertise is sexual harrassment - that her statement about sexual harassment is incorrect or false? Yikes.