Former department store employee at US mall claims she was forced to delete co-worker’s request for nude photos

As she was departing from work that day, the store’s security manager stopped her and “would physically not allow her to leave” without going through her phone and making her delete contacts and messages, including the alleged requests from the security staffer for nude photos, Hanson claims. — Pixabay

A former employee of high-end Santa Clara department store Bloomingdale’s alleges in a new lawsuit that she was sexually harassed, then forced by a security manager to delete from her phone a co-worker’s request for nude photos.

Lauren Hanson claims the alleged abuses started a few weeks after she began employment in June as a registry supervisor for the store in the upscale Westfield Valley Fair mall, when her supervisor told her she needed a stricter dress code than other workers because she was “drawing attention to herself as a woman”.