HOUSTON, July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The trial in Jessica Cheatham’s multi-million lawsuit against oilfield services giant Schlumberger Technology Corporation asserting that the company permits rampant sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the field starts Monday, July 17 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, with U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt scheduled to preside.
Cheatham is represented by Michael D. Palmer, Nicole E. Wiitala, Andrew Macurdy, and Carolin Guentert of Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP, Todd Slobin of Shellist Lazaraz Slobin LLP, and Melinda Arbuckle of Wage and Hour Firm.
“As a Schlumberger engineer, Ms. Cheatham was subjected to a barrage of sexual harassment and hostile, discriminatory workplace behavior simply because she was a female employee in a male-dominated workplace,” said Palmer. “The company’s repeated lack of success in getting her claims dismissed demonstrates the strength of the evidence and the extent to which the conditions in which she was forced to work not only violated Title VII, but were unconscionable.”
Cheatham was employed by Schlumberger as a field engineer on its Texas oil rigs starting in September 2017 and had wanted to ultimately retire with the company. Early in her employment, however, she was harassed by a male colleague who used sexually explicit terms in demonstrating how to use tools and made other sexually suggestive remarks. Although she reported this to the company’s HR...
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