Menards to pay former Avon employee $342,000 after lawsuit alleging the company failed to take action against a serial harasser
An arbitrator has awarded a former Avon Menards employee more than $342,000 for lost pay, emotional distress and punitive damages in her lawsuit alleging the home improvement store ignored escalating sexual harassment from a customer that forced her to leave her job.
The customer also told her he would “lay his hammer” on her, that “he’d love to stalk her,” and that he was “going to take her out and do whatever he wanted to her, whether she liked it or not,” and threatened to use a gun in incidents speaking with other employees, according to the arbitration verdict. He also appeared to have known and memorized the employee’s schedule.
After one encounter with him, the employee asked a coworker to call the police. But when she went to write a statement for the police, she says the store’s general manager sent her to the Garden Center, an area she’d never worked before. Because of this, the employee felt her manager was trying to interfere with her talking to the police.
Unsurprisingly, the employee targeted by him, “felt that Menards would rather lose an employee than lose a customer who spends a lot of money in the store.”
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