{"id":1178,"date":"2017-10-05T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:57:28","slug":"former-finance-startup-employee-alleges-being-fired-for-reporting-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/former-finance-startup-employee-alleges-being-fired-for-reporting-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Finance Startup Employee Alleges Being Fired For Reporting Sexual Harassment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office or workplace is supposed to be a safe environment where employees can go and not have to worry about harassment of any type. Sexual harassment, however, is all too common; in most cases, sexual harassment occurs between a superior and a subordinate leaving the harassed feeling unsure of who or what they can do. <strong>Victims of sexual harassment can rely on an experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-sexual-harassment-lawyers-attorneys.php\">sexual harassment personal injury attorney<\/a> at the Law Offices of Gilbert R. Hoy, Jr. and Affiliates to help guide them through this complicated litigation process.<\/strong> Our nationally recognized <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-information-lawyers-attorneys.php\">personal injury attorneys<\/a> have decades of experience fighting for our Massachusetts clients.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NqzXiWOmAtY\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A former employee of the lending startup, Social Finance, has filed a California lawsuit alleging that he was fired for reporting sexual harassment of female coworkers. The lawsuit was filed by Brandon Charles, who only worked at Social Finance as a loan processing officer for a few months. But during that time, <strong>the lawsuit claims his manager used \u201cexplicit sexual innuendo\u201d when speaking, and made \u201clewd, sexualized gestures\u201d when referring to female employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Charles claims he was fired after reporting the allegedly unlawful behavio, and was told that reporting it to his supervisors was outside of his appropriate duties. <strong>A spokesman for the company has said that, after an internal investigation was concluded, they found Mr. Charles&#8217; claims to have no merit. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you or a loved one been sexually harassed or discriminated against because of your gender while at work, in another public place, or even in your own home; <strong>if so, please contact the\u00a0expert sexual harassment personal injury lawyers here at our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\">Boston, Massachusetts law firm<\/a>.\u00a0Call us 24\/7 at 617-787-3700 or email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">info@gilhoylaw.com<\/a>.<\/strong> Your needs are our top priority!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office or workplace is supposed to be a safe environment where employees can go and not have to worry about harassment of any type. Sexual harassment, however, is all too common; in most cases, sexual harassment occurs between a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/former-finance-startup-employee-alleges-being-fired-for-reporting-sexual-harassment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,4,22,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}