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Employee shamed online for reporting sexual harassment

Employee shamed online for reporting sexual harassment

An employee at Chilli’s restaurant, Pennsylvania, US, was shamed by her co-workers after reporting incidents of harassment, which allegedly continued for two years.

Emily Houser began her job at the restaurant aged 16, at the same time a new manager, Josh Davidson, 24 was hired.

Buzzfeed News reports that Houser said Davidson took interest in her, and for two years, sexually harassed and relentlessly pursued a relationship with her.

"Over a two-year period, it just kind of escalated into him providing me with gifts of significance and money and flowers and cards and things that I wasn’t really accepting of, things that made me extremely uncomfortable because I was not sure what he expected of me from these gifts," she said.

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