SkyWest Stuck With Sexual Harassment Loss to EEOC, Parts Clerk

SkyWest Airlines Inc. failed to convince a Dallas federal judge to overturn an award of punitive damages to the US government and a former parts clerk for sexual harassment or to grant a new trial.

In finding for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the former employee at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a jury necessarily concluded her SkyWest coworkers subjected her to crude and sexually explicit jokes, comments, and gestures, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. The jury further undoubtedly found the airline knew or should’ve known about the harassment and failed to take ...