The case of the abusive guests.(sexual harassment)

Nation, The, April, 1995 by Jaffe, Susan

Six women who worked for the Cutler Ridge Holiday Inn in Miami, FL, are suing the hotel for permitting sexual harassment from the guests. The guests were primarily Southern Bell employees who were occupying the hotel for months, and the hotel management allegedly made no attempt to intervene.

"This is the hospitality business," says David Schuessler, general manager of the Cutler Ridge Holiday Inn in Miami. But to six women who worked for him, hospitality didn't mean putting up with customers who grabbed their breasts, rubbed their thighs, kissed them on the mouth and offered to pay them for sex. Last year the women sued the Holiday Inn for sexual harassment because, as former bartender Luana Stowe put it, "management let things go too far." Their jury trial, scheduled...

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