Tortilla company El Milagro Inc. doesn’t have to face trial on a Chicago factory employee’s claims over workplace sexual touching and other alleged harassment, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
A jury could find the repeated touching of the female worker’s intimate body parts severe enough to make her job environment sexually hostile, a three-judge panel said. But there isn’t enough evidence for reasonable jurors to conclude that Alma Sanchez gave a supervisor enough information about her male coworker reaching under her clothes to make her employer think she was being sexually harassed, the panel said Wednesday in affirming summary judgment ...