The women assert in three distinct lawsuits that they confronted discrimination and were afterward fired, all in 2011, afterward describing that one of them was repeatedly sexually harassed by the male worker.
The lawsuits were filed last month in Cumberland County Superior Court by Abinair Martin of Gray, Grace Parker of Westbrook and Brenda Pippin of South Portland. The cases were advanced to combined court at the appeal of Boulevard Motel Corp., the Maryland firm that owns the South Portland Comfort Inn.
James Erwin of Pierce Atwood LLP, the attorney for Boulevard Motel Corp., said the firm does not comment on pending litigation. …show more content…
In April 2010, Parker observed an event across that he allegedly denoted to Martin by an impolite term and asked her to lift up her shirt so he might present a sexual deed on her, according to the lawsuits.
Parker and Martin notified Pippin, their supervisor, concerning the event, and all three next described the unproven harassment to the hotel’s finished manager, Beth Landergren. The lawsuits assert that Landergren notified the women that the maintenance operative “did not fit the profile” of a sexual harasser and that he was “kidding around.”
In the lawsuits, the women assert the maintenance operative had a past of sexually harassing women, but supervisors obscured it up. The women trusted Landergren was in affection alongside the maintenance operative, according to the suits.
Martin was fired in June 2011 for insubordination, the date afterward she “politely interjected a workers encounter to ask Mrs. Landergren a question concerning an assignment,” according to the