News Story Featuring Our Raleigh Discrimination Lawyers

Our team of employment attorneys in Raleigh was featured in an article by Hayley Fowler in the Charlotte Observer on February 20, 2020. The news feature reports our employment lawyers’ quest for justice on behalf of a client who we contended was a victim of sexual discrimination, harassment, and a hostile work environment based on her gender.

From the article:

“In a double-wide trailer that serves as a regional airport on the coast of North Carolina, a woman who worked for Hertz said she was subject to sexual harassment on a near-daily basis.

Now she’s suing.

Hertz Corporation facilitated a hostile work environment when it failed to protect Harmony Hitchner from a group of men known as the “airport bums” who frequently directed inappropriate remarks at or around her, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

“Ms. Hitchner was subjected to years of verbal abuse, harassment, and inappropriate behavior that she could not escape,” her attorney Joseph Budd of Osborn Gambale Beckley & Budd PLLC, told McClatchy News. “Hertz, a multi-billion dollar company that had a duty to protect Ms. Hitchner, was well aware of this situation and left her to fend for herself in this hostile environment all so that it could maintain its business relationship with the airport and its influential management.”"

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