Woman Wins Suit Over Workplace Spankings
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A jury Friday awarded $500,000 to a woman who sued her employer after she was spanked in front of her colleagues in what the company called a camaraderie-building exercise.
The jury found that Janet Orlando suffered sexual harassment and sexual battery when she was paddled on her backside on three occasions during her employment at Alarm One Inc., a home-security company.
Orlando, 53, was awarded $10,000 for economic loss, $40,000 for future medical costs and $450,000 for emotional distress, pain and suffering. The trial’s punitive phase was scheduled to begin Friday afternoon.
