Time’s Up Is Helping Walmart Employees With a Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
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About 2,700 people have contacted the fund with complaints about sexual harassment, and about 5 percent of those work in retail. Retail employees are particularly vulnerable because of their relatively low status within their companies, murky systems for reporting incidents, and the fact that economic insecurity may prevent these workers from taking action that might result in losing or leaving their jobs.