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A lawsuit filed earlier this month against leaders of the Woodstock Inn and Resort portrays an abusive culture at Woodstock’s flagship hotel and at the nearby Billings Farm — including sexual misconduct, discrimination and retaliation against whistleblowers — that was allegedly upheld by management.
The suit was filed in Windsor County Superior Court by Ellen Pomeroy, the former board chair of the Woodstock Foundation, and Sal Iannuzzi, the board’s former vice chair. The foundation owns the Woodstock Inn as well as Billings Farm and Museum, a dairy farm and operating partner of the adjoining Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
The two plaintiffs were removed from the board in November, according to the suit.
They allege that fellow board members acted beyond their authority when they suspended and removed Iannuzzi and Pomeroy from the board in what the plaintiffs described as retaliation for investigating a slew of employee complaints.
As outlined in the lawsuit, the employee complaints included allegations that women were paid less than male counterparts and denied promotions to senior positions; that female employees faced “recurrent, offensive sexual comments and behavior by both members of management and co-employees”; that management allowed a sexual relationship between a staff member and her male supervisor, later promoting both; that management allowed “a human resource training manager’s...
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