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NY AG: Harvey Weinstein - Women who were forced to sign confidentiality agreements will be freed from those clauses & be able to speak
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#BREAKING: We helped secure $19 million for survivors of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse and harassment.
Women who were forced to sign confidentiality agreements will also be freed from those clauses and finally be able to speak.
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Attorney General James Helps Secure $19 Million for Sexual Misconduct and Workplace Harassment Survivors of Harvey Weinstein
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a class action lawsuit, has helped to secure approximately $19 million for women who experienced sexual misconduct and workplace harassment by convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein. The payments, if approved by the bankruptcy and district courts, resolve the Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) February 2018 lawsuit against The Weinstein Company LLC, Harvey Weinstein, and Robert Weinstein, for maintaining a hostile work environment at the company, as well as a separately-filed putative class action lawsuit brought on behalf of women who were sexually harassed and assaulted by Harvey Weinstein.
The payments are part of an agreement that resolves the OAG’s lawsuit and the putative class action lawsuit, and is part of a larger global agreement proposed in the plan for liquidation under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code for The Weinstein Company and its parent holding company, The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC (together TWC).
The agreement ensures that women who experienced a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, and gender-based discrimination while working at The Weinstein Company, as well as sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, are entitled to obtain restitution, by creating a $18,875,000 victims’ compensation fund.
“Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company failed their female employees.
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