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	<title>Women&#039;s Rights Employment Blog :: Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock &#38; Sipser, LLP &#187; Nona Abdelrehim</title>
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		<title>Woman Sues NYC Firm Over Hostile Work Environment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claims Sexual Harassment, Anti-Muslim Discrimination By John Slattery for CBS A female employee of a Manhattan publishing company has filed suit, claiming a very hostile work enviornment. She said she was targeted because she&#8217;s a woman and a Muslim. Nona Abdelrehim, 26, said the magazine firm she works for was like &#8220;Animal House,&#8221; a sort [...]]]></description>
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<p>By <strong><a href="http://wcbstv.com/local/black.friday.security.2.1334682.html">John Slattery for CBS</a></strong></p>
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<p>A female employee of a Manhattan publishing company has filed suit, claiming a very hostile work enviornment. She said she was targeted because she&#8217;s a woman and a Muslim. </p>
<p>Nona Abdelrehim, 26, said the magazine firm she works for was like &#8220;Animal House,&#8221; a sort of jock fraternity culture that was hostile to women. &#8220;Comments made to me directly by co-workers about my body, and it&#8217;s incredibly uncomfortable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Abdelrahim works as a manager at GDS International, based in the U.K. with it&#8217;s New York office on Wall Street, an office she said that places a premium on hard-drinking and sex talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all based around drinking, having a good time, inappropriate gestures that are being made,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>She said not only was there sexual harassment, but there was anti-Muslim discrimination with images on computers. &#8220;There was one sales update saying so-and-so dropped a $50,000 bomb on whatever project and then they had a picture depicted of a Muslim man in garb indicating a terrorist. People were commenting, people were laughing.&#8221;</p>
<p>After not getting satisfaction from complaints to her company, she got a lawyer to file suit. &#8220;They have discriminated against Nona by creating an environment that&#8217;s degrading to her in particular but certainly to all woman who work at GDS,&#8221; said attorney Jack Tuckner.</p>
<p>The company issued this statement: &#8220;She is still a valued employee and we support our employees as best we can. Therefore, commenting on this matter would not be fair or supportive.&#8221;</p>
<p>For now, the young woman is still employed by the publishing company, but she wonders how long it can last.</p>
<p>The suit seeks compensation for damages but the amount is not specified.</p>
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