Crain’s Chicago: Sexual harassment and the protection gap for Chicago’s low-wage workers (Op-Ed by Sheerine Alemzadeh, co-founder of Healing to Action)
“Law enforcement agencies have been less than clear with guidance around third-party harassment by customers and guests, making protections tenuous for employees in the rapidly growing service economy.
Local groups are working to shore up existing protections for the most vulnerable workers. In Chicago, Unite Here Local 1 is pushing an ordinance to strengthen hotels’ responses to guest harassment.”