A director with the city Department of Homeless Services sexually harassed a trio of underlings — once pulling a shelter director’s shirt up and forcing her to flash her co-workers, they claim in a shocking new lawsuit.
The women, all of whom worked or still work with Director of Programs Eric Hall, claim the department not only turned a blind eye to multiple complaints they made about his sexual harassment over the past six years, but instead promoted him, according to the lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday.
Hall, 53, who earned approximately $90,000 last year and works at an East Williamsburg shelter, allegedly told one of the women now suing him that she “isn’t dropping her drawers for me, so I am not obligated to take her anywhere,” when he was asked why he did not take her to a meeting with a vendor in Harlem in October 2020.
He also allegedly called a female assistant at the shelter to his office only to tell her to sit on his face and ask her to “let [him] touch that ass” in May 2023, according to the filing.
Hall also groped another woman, a case manager at the shelter, in November 2022, according to court papers.
The women claim they have made repeated complaints to the Equal Employment Office of DHS, to no avail.
“Sadly, the plaintiffs’ experience is another example of women being objectified, sexualized, disrespected, and made to feel unsafe in their workplace, while their employer ignores their complaints and allows their harasser to walk around acting untouchable for years,” Caitlin Duffy, the lawyer representing the women, told The Post
Neither the DHS nor Hall responded to requests for comment.