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发帖数: 29576 | 1 国会这个Office of Compliance替议员们支付赔偿和封口费。
She Said That A Powerful Congressman Harassed Her. Here’s Why You Didn’t
Hear Her Story.
“When you make private settlements, it doesn’t warn the next woman or the
next person going into that situation.”
Michigan Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the
House of Representatives, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015
with a former employee who alleged she was fired because she would not “
succumb to [his] sexual advances.”
Documents from the complaint obtained by BuzzFeed News include four signed
affidavits, three of which are notarized, from former staff members who
allege that Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Judiciary
Committee, repeatedly made sexual advances to female staff that included
requests for sexual favors, contacting and transporting other women with
whom they believed Conyers was having affairs, caressing their hands
sexually, and rubbing their legs and backs in public. Four people involved
with the case verified the documents are authentic.
And the documents also reveal the secret mechanism by which Congress has
kept an unknown number of sexual harassment allegations secret: A grinding,
closely held process that left the alleged victim feeling, she told BuzzFeed
News, that she had no option other than to stay quiet and accept a
settlement offered to her.
“I was basically blackballed. There was nowhere I could go,” she said in a
phone interview. BuzzFeed News is withholding the woman’s name at her
request, because she said she fears retribution.
Last week the Washington Post reported that the office paid out $17 million
for 264 settlements with federal employees over 20 years for various
violations, including sexual harassment. The Conyers documents, however,
give a glimpse into the inner workings of the Office of Compliance, which
has for decades concealed episodes of sexual abuse by powerful political
figures
The woman who settled with Conyers launched the complaint in 2014 with
Congress’s Office of Compliance alleging that she was fired for refusing
his sexual advances and ended up facing a daunting process that ended with a
confidentiality agreement in exchange for a settlement of more than $27,000
. Her settlement, however, came from Conyers’ office budget rather than the
designated fund for settlements.
Congress has no human resources department. Instead, congressional employees
have 180 days to report a sexual harassment incident to the Office of
Compliance, which then leads to a lengthy process involves counseling,
mediation, and requires the signing of a confidentiality agreement before a
complaint can go forward.
After this, an employee can choose to take the matter to federal district
court, but another avenue is available: an administrative hearing, after
which a negotiation and settlement may follow.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/she-complained-that-a-powerful-
congressman-harassed-her?utm_term=.efNlZEpDl#.urR8LVAG8 | B*Q
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