Human Rights
Manager discriminated based on actual or perceived sexual orientation of employee.
The Commission on Human Rights alleged that respondents, a dry cleaning company and its manager, discriminated against an employee due to his age and actual or perceived sexual orientation. At a default hearing, the Commission established that respondents used crude sexual terms to refer to the employee and did not use the same offensive terms against any other worker, and that the remarks caused the employee to quit.
Comm'n on Human Rights ex rel. Perez v. Lee's Kapri Cleaners & Glen Lee, OATH Index No. 101/14 (Dec. 12, 2013).