The 1991 federal law on sexual harassment is pretty simple: the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination (EEOC).
Herman Cain in his job at NRA had other worries and it wasn’t about the women.
“This bill opens the door for opportunists who will use the legislation to make some money,” Cain, then CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, told Nation’s Restaurant News. “I’m certainly for civil rights, but I don’t know if this bill is fair because of what we’ll have to spend to defend ourselves in unwarranted cases.”
That does put why Republicans are also against the Lily Ledbetter Act into perspective, now doesn’t it? They represent the 1%.