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Low-Paid Women Get Hollywood Money to File Harassment Suits</span></h1>


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 Pitre is suing Walmart and one of its managers, alleging harassment at a store in D’Iberville, Miss. It is one of the first cases backed by the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, started by female Hollywood stars and producers seeking to broaden the #MeToo movement.</span><span class="media-credit--3-06U ResponsiveMedia-credit--3F-q_" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 0.64rem; line-height: 1rem; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR" style="margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Credit</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">William


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Gina Pitre had come to dread working at Walmart. A manager, she said, used to touch her inappropriately and make suggestive comments.</p>


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Ms. Pitre, 56, who earned $11.50 an hour fulfilling online orders in D’Iberville, Miss., said she felt degraded and angry.</p>


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Ms. Pitre saw a television news segment this winter about how female Hollywood stars and producers had <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/movies/times-up-hollywood-women-sexual-harassment.html" title="" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">started


 Time’s Up, a group to help women combat harassment</a>. A related initiative, the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://nwlc.org/times-up-legal-defense-fund/" title="" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Time’s


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Hollywood, it appears, is starting to make good on its promise to focus on women outside the limelight and broaden the #MeToo movement.</p>


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The actress Susan Sarandon, along with Ms. Pitre, female Walmart workers and labor activists, signed a letter to the retailer’s chief executive, demanding changes in the company’s policies and procedures around harassment.</p>


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“I don’t care who you are,” said Ms. Pitre, who left her job at Walmart last month. “There is no cause for disrespect.”</p>


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In a statement, Walmart said it had conducted a “comprehensive investigation” into Ms. Pitre’s complaints and “could not substantiate a violation of our Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Policy.”</p>


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“We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and thoroughly investigate all sexual harassment allegations,” the statement added.</p>


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EDITORS’ PICKS</h2>


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Since its launch in January, the Time’s Up fund — which is administered by the National Women’s Law Center in Washington — has raised about $22 million in donations to help pay for legal representation and other assistance for women facing harassment.</p>


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So far, about 2,700 workers have contacted the fund, saying they have been harassed. The largest number of complaints, about 9 percent, have come from the arts industry, followed by workers in the federal government, education and health care. Retail workers


 made roughly 5 percent of the complaints.</p>


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Volunteers at the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group focused on women’s rights, have been reviewing the online complaints and providing many workers with names of lawyers who might be willing to take on their case. The law center does not vet the


 facts of each case, but relies on the workers’ lawyers to make sure the claims are sound.</p>


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When deciding on funding, the staff uses a set of “priorities,” including whether the worker is in a low-wage job or in a male-dominated occupation.</p>


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“We hope to send a message to employers,” said Emily Martin, the law center’s general counsel. “Just because a woman doesn’t have a lot of money or connections doesn’t mean someone isn’t going to stand up for them.”</p>


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The assistance from Time’s Up is relatively modest — about $3,000 to help pay the initial lawyer fees. If the case goes to trial, the fund will provide up to $100,000 for fees.</p>


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The money is meant to help defray some of the financial risks that lawyers face when taking a harassment case. Lawyers typically work on a contingency basis — meaning they are paid only if there is a settlement or they are successful at trial. Even then, some


 damages are capped in federal court, and judges in certain states may be inclined to rule against plaintiffs.</p>


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 National Women’s Law Center, which administers the Time’s Up fund, connected Ms. Pitre with a lawyer and helped fund her lawsuit, which she filed last month.</span><span itemprop="copyrightHolder" class="css-vg01wm e18m0s9i0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 0.64rem; line-height: 1rem; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span class="e1afaoz0 css-1ly73wi" style="margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Credit</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">William


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Ms. Martin said it was difficult to track how many lawsuits had arisen from the Time’s Up campaign in the roughly five months since it was started.</p>


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One of the early lawsuits was filed by a medical resident who said she had been forced out of her program after reporting harassment. Ms. Martin said the woman did not want her name disclosed.</p>


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In some cases, publicity is part of the strategy. The National Women’s Law Center will provide “communications support” — connecting women with public relations specialists — to help them call attention to their story.</p>


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Ms. Martin said publicity could help “broaden the impact” of the legal cases in combating harassment. Toward that end, the law center connected Ms. Pitre with Our Walmart, a worker advocacy group. This month, Our Walmart <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/united4respect/pages/107/attachments/original/1526484530/Final_Sign_On_Letter_-_Ending_Harassment___Walmart__(3).pdf?1526484530" title="" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">sent


 the letter</a> signed by Ms. Pitre and Ms. Sarandon to Walmart’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, calling on the retailer to revamp its harassment procedures.</p>


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A Walmart spokesman said in a statement, “We have strong policies and procedures in place to address allegations of sexual harassment, and we believe our current practices meet or exceed many of the requests in the letter.”</p>


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When Ms. Pitre started working at Walmart in June 2016, she liked the job, she said. But after a few months, a supervisor started to harass her, including instances when he grabbed her breasts and made “unwelcome sexual comments,” according to her lawsuit.</p>


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Last July, she reported the harassment to a company ethics department, her lawsuit says. Ms. Pitre said she was eventually told that the company’s investigation was closed, but was never told the outcome.</p>


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A Walmart spokesman said the company does not disclose the outcomes of its harassment investigations to anyone, including the employee filing the complaint. The spokesman said this policy is aimed at the “privacy and confidentiality of all concerned.”</p>


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In its letter, Our Walmart demands that the company start informing employees about the results of its harassment investigations.</p>


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Ms. Pitre had previous experience with harassment. In 2008, she filed a lawsuit in federal court, accusing her former managers at the Boomtown Casino in Biloxi, Miss. of groping her and making sexually suggestive comments, according to her lawsuit.</p>


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The case resulted in a confidential settlement and “the termination and/or discipline of certain parties at Boomtown Casino,” a company spokesman said in an email.</p>


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Ms. Martin said she was not aware of Ms. Pitre’s earlier lawsuit when the Time’s Up fund approved funding for her Walmart case. But Ms. Martin said it would not have been a factor in the decision.</p>


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“It is not shocking that this job is not the first job where Gina has experienced some sort of harassment,” Ms. Martin said.</p>


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The Jackson, Miss., office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it had been “unable to conclude” that the “information obtained” in Ms. Pitre’s case showed that Walmart had broken the law. The agency added that its ruling did not mean Walmart


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Ms. Pitre had hired a previous lawyer, but parted ways with her after, she said, the lawyer was hesitant about pursuing a case against Walmart.</p>


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The National Women’s Law Center put Ms. Pitre in touch with Louis H. Watson Jr., who has had success with harassment claims. A few years ago, he represented a group of female firefighters who said they faced unwanted advances and crude taunts by male supervisors


 in Jackson. After a jury found in the women’s favor, the city agreed to pay them tens of thousands of dollars each and improve its harassment policies.</p>


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Still, harassment cases face an uphill battle in places like Mississippi, Mr. Watson said. “It is such a conservative state,” he said. “There are not many lawyers who want to take on these claims.”</p>


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