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State AG says Bayonne dry cleaner mocked lesbian employee
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Today 1:54 PM
Professional Touch Dry Cleaning and Apparel Repairs on Avenue C in Bayonne. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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A Bayonne dry cleaning business created a hostile work environment for a lesbian employee, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday.
The owner of Professional Touch Dry Cleaning and Apparel Repairs “regularly made derisive remarks” about a former employee’s sexual orientation, the agency said, and allegedly created a hostile environment by “openly disclosing, discussing, and deriding” the fact that the employee is gay.
The employee quit after two years, the Attorney General’s Office said.
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Professional Touch Dry Cleaning & Apparel Repairs at 482 Avenue C, photo via Google Maps
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has announced that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has issued Findings of Probable Cause against an employer in Bayonne accused of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD).
LAD prohibits discrimination and harassment in employment based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or other protected characteristics. Prohibited bias-based harassment, including sexual harassment, can take various forms. Workplace sexual harassment is unlawful when it is so severe or pervasive that it creates a hostile working environment.