Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Jacor target of sexual harassment lawsuit
BY BEN L. KAUFMAN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Former Dawn Patrol and Gary Burbank Show personality Leah Burns sued Jacor Broadcasting Corp. on Tuesday, claiming sexual harassment on and off the air at WLW-AM and WEBN-FM, and saying she was fired for complaining.
Her lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by attorneys Martin McHenry and Douglas M. Morehart, seeks unspecified damages and reinstatement or additional money while she looks for comparable employment.
Mike Kenney, market manager for the two stations, said he could not comment because he had not seen the lawsuit.
Ms. Burns, of Batavia, said she worked for Jacor more than 10 years.
In 1994, she said, she began working full time at WLW, where an unnamed co-worker harassed her and refused to stop when asked.
Ms. Burns said she tried unsuccessfully to move away from the harasser to WEBN and concluded that Jacor's anti-harassment policy was a sham.
Her complaint said that in addition to condoning sexual comments on and off the air, Jacor discriminated against her and other women seeking “full-time on-air positions.”
Ms. Burns said Jacor eventually agreed to transfer her to WEBN, where her duties included being a host on the Dawn Patrol show. Last fall, she said, a temporary co-host began harassing her on the air, suggesting that she was performing oral sex on him.
According to her lawsuit, new complaints were unavailing and managers fired her in January, saying changes in Jacor's computer system made her redundant. Attorneys McHenry and Morehart said that was a pretext for retaliation because people continued to do Ms. Burns' jobs.
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