Behind the scenes, action at a 2013 Rockets-Nets game is now the center of a highly charged lawsuit. Rasean Tate, 28, of Brooklyn, is suing the Houston Rockets basketball team and the company that handles catering at the Brooklyn Barclays Center, Levy Restaurant Holdings, for anti-gay discrimination and sex harassment. The New York Nets and the Barclays Center are not named in the suit.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn Federal Court in April 2014, Tate was badgered and berated in the Barclays locker room. The team members hurled insults at him, including such statements as \u201cGet this f—-t out of here!\u201d and \u201cHe\u2019s trying to catch a sneaky peeky!\u201d Tate alleges he was targeted for being homosexual \u2014both sexual harassment and sexual orientation discrimination is illegal in NYC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tate reported the incident to Levy\u2019s catering manager and received a verbal apology from the Nets\u2019 vice president of human resources. Tate was also told that Nets players were given special sensitivity training because of the incident.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Tate was soon benched after he reported the harassment. He said he was barred from working lucrative assignments that promised overtime pays. Afterward, he was suspended without pay <\/a>in January for \u201cfailing to follow instructions,\u201d yet Tate claims the accusations were retaliation for his sex harassment complaint and because of his sexual orientation. In his complaint, Tate acknowledges he is gay. There are a slew of city, state and federal laws protecting NYC workers from sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. However, despite the legal barriers in place, New York employees are still threatened by unfair treatment and abuse. Speak with a sex harassment lawyer in NYC if you feel your rights have been violated. Behind the scenes, action at a 2013 Rockets-Nets game is now the center of a highly charged lawsuit. Rasean Tate, 28, of Brooklyn, is suing the Houston Rockets basketball team and the company that handles catering at the Brooklyn Barclays Center, Levy Restaurant Holdings, for anti-gay discrimination and sex harassment. The New York Nets and … Continue reading “Houston Rockets Facing NYC Sex Harassment Sexual Orientation Discrimination Suit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,11,14],"tags":[1939,1940,3,1941,1942,1943,349,1944,1945,408],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment-law","category-new-jersey-lawyer","category-new-york-city-lawyer","category-philadelphia-lawyer","category-sexual-harassment","tag-barclays-center","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn","tag-gay-discrimination","tag-houston-rockets","tag-levy-restaurant-holdings","tag-nba","tag-rasean-tate","tag-sex-harassment","tag-sexual-orientation-discrimination"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\nHave you been discriminated against because of your orientation or gender?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n
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