EEOC Sues Standard Register for Failure to Stop Sex-Based Harassment

YORK, PA—A leading national document services provider based in Dayton, OH, failed to take appropriate action to stop the sex-based harassment of a female employee at its facility in York, PA, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Penny Zink, of York, began working for the Standard Register Co. in February 2005. After she transferred to the all-male coater department as a press trainee, her male coworkers repeatedly discriminated against and harassed her because of her sex. This unlawful treatment included calling her names, yelling at her, failing to give her the needed assistance to work on a two-person machine even though male employees were given that aid, depriving her of necessary work information essential to the performance of her job, ostracizing her and leaving anonymous notes mocking her. She was allegedly told that she was “not as good as the guys.”