Christopher Watkins represents a former EMT of the Goshen Ambulance Corps (GOVAC) in an important case. The young female EMT was sexually assaulted by a fellow EMT in the workplace - part of the assault was actually caught on the employer's surveillance camera.. The Ambulance Corps was not in compliance with New York state law, which requires that all employers provide employees with annual sexual harassment training. After her assault, and after her assailant pled guilty to criminal charges of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree, the plaintiff pressed GOVAC's leadership to provide sexual harassment training. However, it refused, claiming it would cost too much to pay employees to attend the training. Instead, it fired the plaintiff, re-victimizing her. Her suit for sexual harassment and wrongful termination is pending in Orange County Supreme Court. A News 12 story about the case can be found here:
Lawsuit filed against ex-Goshen EMT, ambulance corps after on-duty sexual assault Comments are closed.
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