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While Ivanka Trump has said that sexual harassment is inexcusable in any setting and condemned all harassment during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday night, a review by a major daily of over 4,000 legal actions against the companies of Ivanka’s father, Donald Trump, showed two former employees complained of sexual harassment.
USA Today reported the two sexual harassment complaints were among the 130 labor disputes which involved the Republican presidential candidate and his company over 30 years.
The first complaint came from Erin Breen, supervisor of the Trump Kids Club of the billionaire’s golf course in Jupiter, Florida, who complained of “persistent, unwelcome sexual advances” against a supervisor. Breen claimed she informed the human resources department and her supervisor of the harassment, but she was instead fired two weeks after she reported the incident.
Breen’s complaint is still with the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The second complaint, similar to the first, involved Nausheen Nurani, a female server at Sixteen Chicago, a restaurant inside Trump Hotel and Tower. Nurani complained of “unwanted and offensive touchings” and “offensive sexual material” by a co-worker. When she told a general manager in 2008 of her complaint, she was also fired after two weeks.
Nurani filed claims with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and EEOC. Although the judge did not toss the case, he dismissed it after the hotel settled out of court with Nurani in March 2010 with undisclosed terms.
NBC cited a New York Times report that a field organizer employed by Trump’s campaign complained of sexual harassment from Trump, the candidate denied the accusation and commented that young women “could do a lot of damage” with their looks.
The daily also published in May a long article on Trump’s private interaction with female employees which include routine comment on their bodies, sexual boasting and making decisions about workers based on their looks, but he dismissed the article as a “hit piece.”
