BELLEVILLE — A former employee of an Eagle Flooring store in Swansea claims she was forced to quit because of alleged sexual harassment.
Dawn Crump-Clark filed a complaint Dec. 22 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Eagle Flooring Outlet Inc., doing business as Eagle Flooring, and Brian Rauk, alleging violation of the Illinois Human Rights Act, assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff began working for Eagle Flooring at its Swansea store in 2019. She claims that from Feb. 9, 2020, through March 17, Eagle Flooring president and owner, Rauk, made "sexually suggestive" comments and advances and pursued "offensive touching." Specifically, the plaintiff alleges Rauk grabbed her breast, smacked her butt and made the comment "wouldn't it be fun to be bad together?"
She alleges she cut her hair and "dressed down" in order to avoid the alleged harassment, which she claims still continued.
Crump-Clark claims Eagle Flooring knew of prior sexual harassment complaints against Rauk and still kept him in a supervisory position where he had subordinate female employees. She claims she was forced to resign from her position on March 17 due to the alleged harassment.
The plaintiff seeks compensation or more than $50,000 and all other just relief. She is represented by Ryan Mahoney of Cates Mahoney LLC in Swansea.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 20-L-1016