Sexual Harassment on Shine

Some people do get fired for having affairs with younger coworkers. Just ask Steve Phillips.

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What do you know? It turns out that some people do actually get fired when news hits the tabloids of affairs with younger employees in the workplace. ESPN fired Baseball analyst Steve Phillips, less than a week after he admitted having an affair with a production assistant at the cable network.

It didn't help, of course, that the 22-year-old production assistant started calling Phillips' wife, sent her a graphic letter about their involvement, and showed up in the family's Connecticut driveway in August after Phillips broke off the affair, according to police reports. Still, it makes you wonder: Why did ESPN fire Phillips, 46, when...

Fearing Letterman-level debacle, Kimmel broadcasts relationship with coworker

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Hold on to your hat! Batten down the hatches! Do whatever will prepare you for this unbelievably shocking display of...ordinary life in the American workplace. Yes, that's right, yet another late night talk show host is dating a coworker,

The very real and un-funny issue at the heart of David Letterman's extortion scandal

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In a shocking opening to the "Late Show" last night, David Letterman took nearly ten minutes to unravel the story of being extorted by a CBS employee, helping lead authorities to the suspect, and admitting to the Grand Jury, and now his audience, that the talk show host had sex with female employees.

Letterman eventually stated outright that the $2 million extortion threat included evidence of "creepy things" he'd done.

The 'new' sexual harassment

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Sexual harassment isn't about being chased around the desk anymore. It's about flirtation, subtle power plays, retaliation and, of course, text messages. When her hotel room phone rang at 2 a.m., Megan McFeely assumed it was an emergency.…

A good week for workers' rights

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For good reason, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act got lots of attention last week, as President Barack Obama made it a point that the first piece of legislation he signed strenthened workers' ability to pursue in court equal pay for equal work. The bill overturned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that denied Ledbetter's claim of sexual discrimination via lower paychecks because of when she filed the claim. But it was a good week for workers also because of a new Supreme Court decision.