
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 28, 1993                   TAG: 9309280191
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATE KITCHEN WORKERS WIN HARASSMENT CASE

In the first sexual harassment case resolved in the two years since Congress gave its employees the same protections other Americans gained in 1964, two women workers in the Senate's basement kitchen have won damages and an official apology for repeated abuse by a male supervisor.

Susan Ochoa, 30, the first female chef in the Capitol food facility, said one of her bosses threw food down her clothes, tried to look under her skirt, asked her if she was wearing underwear, bruised her by putting her on a conveyor belt and called her names.

Ella Bennett, 45, said the same man rubbed her posterior several times a day, pulled her dress open in the presence of other employees, grabbed her thighs and threw her head first into a trash can.

At a news conference Monday, the women did not name the supervisor. Under terms of the settlement approved by the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, the size of the damage award cannot be disclosed.

The supervisor was placed on administrative leave last June.

- Newsday

by CNB