Massage Envy On Receiving End of More Sexual Harassment Allegations

From Hollywood to Washington D.C., sexual harassment allegations have been popping up all over the place lately. Every day it seems someone else is stepping forward with grisly details of a harassment encounter, and businesses, including massage parlors, aren’t immune. Recently, Massage Envy, a chain of “massage spas with almost 1,200 locations across the nation” has found itself of the receiving end of “hundreds of sexual assault complaints and concerns that it ignored or mishandled the allegations.”


Homewood Suites Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Reaches a Settlement

A discrimination lawsuit was recently settled for $35,000 between an Edgewater hotel and a former employee, Rosa E. Lopez. The lawsuit was originally filed because Lopez claimed the hotel “paid men more money — including her own son — per hour to do the same work and then fired her for complaining about it.” As a result of the settlement agreement, the hotel, Homewood Suites, will also be “required to submit to state monitoring of its hiring salary-setting and complaint-handling processing for two years,” according to Attorney General Christopher Porrino.