DML v. Montgomery

The plaintiff was a sex worker providing commercial sexual services at a brothel. She alleged her manager had violated the Human Rights Act 1993 by subjecting her to repeated unwelcome and offensive sexual conduct detrimental to her employment. The Tribunal found for the plaintiff, and further found that the owner of the brothel was vicariously liable for the employee’s actions.

Topics

• Sexual harassment

Geographical location

• Australia and Oceania
• New Zealand

Keywords

• sexual harassment in the workplace
• workplace
• brothel
• sex worker

Year

• 2014

External URL

• DML v. Montgomery

Court

• Human Rights Review Tribunal

Type

• Domestic Case Law

Jurisdiction

• New Zealand