http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/spanking.case.ap/index.html
Jury awards spanked employee $500K
Alarm company says it was part of a team-building exercise
FRESNO, California (AP) -- A jury awarded $500,000 Friday to a woman
who was spanked in front of her colleagues in what her employer
called a camaraderie-building exercise.
The jury of six men and six women found that Janet Orlando was
subjected to sexual harassment and sexual battery when she was
paddled two years ago at Alarm One Inc., a home security company in Fresno.
The jury, however, said that Orlando did not suffer from sexual
assault as she had alleged.
Orlando, 53, had asked for at least $1.2 million in lost wages,
medical costs and damages.
Orlando quit in 2004, less than a year after she was hired, saying
she was humiliated during the company's camaraderie-building exercises.
Sales teams were encouraged to compete, and the losers were made fun
of, forced to eat baby food, required to wear diapers and spanked
with a rival alarm company's yard signs, according to court documents.
Lawyers for the company said Orlando and others took part in the
exercises willingly. The company has since abandoned the practice.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/26/spanking.case.ap/index.html
Spanked employee seeks $1.2 million
Alarm company says it was part of a team-building exercise
FRESNO, California (AP) -- Lawyers for a woman spanked in front of
co-workers as part of what her employer said was a team-building
exercise asked a jury Wednesday for at least $1.2 million for the
humiliation she says she suffered.
Janet Orlando, 53, quit her job at the home security company Alarm
One Inc. and sued, alleging discrimination, assault, battery and
infliction of emotional distress.
Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a
contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to
court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies
at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and
swatting their buttocks.
"No reasonable middle-aged woman would want to be put up there before
a group of young men, turned around to show her buttocks, get spanked
and called abusive names, and told it was to increase sales and
motivate employees," her lawyer, Nicholas "Butch" Wagner, said in his
closing argument.
Lawyers for Alarm One, which is based in Anaheim, California, and has
300 employees, said the spankings were part of a voluntary program to
build camaraderie and were not discriminatory because they were given
to both male and female workers.
"This is being done for one reason and one reason only -- money,"
said K. Poncho Baker, the company's lawyer.
Alarm One officials ceased the practice in 2004, the year Orlando
sued, after another employee complained of being injured, according
to court records.
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