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One year after the Weinstein story broke, sexual harassment claims are up 12% nationwide

Exactly one year ago today, the New York Times published its first investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Given the number of think pieces written about the public’s ever-shrinking attention spans and the ever-rising churn of the news cycle’s speed, it is astonishing that anyone is still talking about Harvey Weinstein at all, let …

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HR Has Never Been on the Side of Workers. #MeToo Is More Proof.

After human resources was informed in 2014 that Emily Nestor, former front desk assistant for the Weinstein Company, was allegedly sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein, company officials reportedly informed Nestor that any complaints would be directly reported to Weinstein himself.  And when Helen Donahue, a former Vice employee, complained to human resources in 2015 that …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.