Today’s Labor Quote: the arbitration panel in the 1997 Smith Barney sexual harassment case

The panel found that the workplace at the retail stock brokerage was "permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insults sufficiently severe and pervasive as to alter the conditions of her employment and create an abusive working environment."

photo: Stanette Goepel, left, and Lisa Mays in 1996. They were among Smith Barney employees who filed a suit charging sexual harassment at the firm.
Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

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