Minnesota is joining a lawsuit filed against a Twin Cities construction company after its management allegedly fired a woman who reported being sexually harassed and raped on the job by a co-worker.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says the lawsuit was filed by Norma Izaguirre, who alleges Lakeville’s Absolute Drywall violated the state’s Human Rights Act by failing to protect her from harassment and sexual assault. The office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison took on the case following the department’s investigation.
According to the lawsuit, Izaguirre says she first learned of the job opportunity with Absolute Drywall from her eventual rapist, 32-year-old Juan Diego Medina Cisneros, while at a restaurant. She went on to work as an on-site cleaner for the company from January to September 2021 and was “immediately and consistently sexually harassed” by Cisneros, who worked as a drywall laborer…