Former Strega employee awarded $20,000 in sexual harassment case
A 25-year-old former employee at Strega Waterfront went public Monday about alleged sexual harassment she endured at the Seaport district restaurant, as well as a related ruling in her favor by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
The MCAD awarded Luvina Hernandez $20,000 in damages in September and ordered the restaurant to make substantial changes, including the implementation of a formal sexual harassment policy, according to Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, who represented Hernandez alongside law firm WilmerHale.
Hernandez began working the dessert line at Strega in the fall of 2013. In a complaint filed with the MCAD in 2014, she alleged that she had repeatedly been subjected to inappropriate comments about her breasts and her sex life by her supervisor, Salvatore Firicano, who also allegedly requested that she give him a massage.
