A former Geese and NHL worker is suing the workforce and league for discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation that she says occurred throughout her time working for the defendants from 2022 to 2025.
Tech employee Rose Harris filed a lawsuit Tuesday within the Southern District of New York through which she claims she “witnessed and skilled repeated and unchecked sexual harassment, bullying, and discrimination” whereas working for the Geese and the NHL.
“This included nonconsensual, sexualized touching; near-constant vulgar, sexist, and derogatory feedback, together with homophobic slurs, discriminatory remarks about intercourse, ladies, and LGBTQ+ folks; obscene pornography on a colleague’s work laptop; and disturbing feedback about how Harris and different workers dressed, together with that girls dressed like ‘whores,’” the grievance states.
Geese dad or mum firm OC Sports activities & Leisure and NHL senior vice chairman and chief human assets officer Patrice Distler are additionally named as co-defendants.
The Geese declined to remark for this text. The Instances reached out to the NHL and OCSE and didn’t obtain fast responses.
Harris is looking for unspecified damages, cheap legal professional charges and different prices and bills.
In line with the grievance, Harris labored for the Geese’ IT division from July 2022 to December 2024. Throughout that point, the submitting states, two of her male coworkers unfold false tales that that they had engaged in sexual encounters along with her.
Additionally, the grievance states, “Harris was repeatedly pressured to listen to about her colleagues’ alleged sexual relationships and was harassed with more and more invasive questions on her personal intercourse life and sexuality.”
It provides: “All of this was a part of the frat home boys membership surroundings the Anaheim Geese and OCSE fostered within the office.”
Harris and different feminine workers additionally weren’t given the identical entry entry to sure components of workforce amenities as their male counterparts, the lawsuit alleges.
Harris initially didn’t report the alleged inappropriate conduct for worry of retaliation, based on the lawsuit, and was referred to as upon by the Geese and OCSE as a witness after one other feminine worker made a sexual harassment report inside the firm. It was at that time that Harris reported “the sexual harassment and discrimination she’d skilled” to human assets.
“HR did nothing to meaningfully tackle the harassment or self-discipline the harassers,” the grievance states, and “the harassment and discrimination continued.”
In line with the submitting, Harris then skilled retaliation.
“This included drastically elevated workload and obligations, with trainings, conferences, and assignments all past her common scope of duties, and all whereas her title and compensation remained the identical. Geese HR even advised Harris that if she wished to advance she wanted to look elsewhere.”
Harris accepted a job as an SaaS applied sciences supervisor on the NHL places of work in New York and began work Jan. 7, 2025. However her employment there lasted lower than a month, the lawsuit states, after “OCSE and the Geese outed her as a sexual harassment sufferer and an adversarial witness in a confidential authorized continuing towards a league franchise.”
“The NHL and Distler wished Harris gone however that they had no authentic motive to fireside her,” the grievance states. “So, high executives on the NHL went about manufacturing one.”
In line with the submitting, “Distler falsely accused Harris of hacking her emails — a criminal offense — and fired her on the spot.”
The lawsuit additionally accuses the Geese, OCSE and the NHL of working “to blacklist Harris from any profession in skilled sports activities.”
