| About 250 employees allege sexual harassment and discrimination at company that owns Jared and Kay jewelry chains |
Hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelers, the company behind Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay Jewelers, claim its chief executive and other leaders fostered a culture of rampant sexual harassment and discrimination.
Female workers at the American retailing giant, known for advertising slogans such as “Every kiss begins with Kay,” were routinely groped, demeaned and urged to sexually cater to their bosses to stay employed, according to testimony released Sunday night from a private class-action arbitration case.
In sworn statements, witnesses said the company’s chief executive was among those accused of having sex with female employees and promoting women based upon how they responded to sexual demands.
The class-action case was first filed in 2008 and remains unresolved. One of the original women who brought the case died in 2014 as proceedings crawled on, attorneys said. |
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