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While most of the nation's workplace sexual harassment complaints are made by women, the number of men filing sexual harassment complaints has been increasing over recent years. Matt Harney, a former executive for the $403 million OnPath Federal Credit Union in Harahan, La., is among those men.
But what makes Harney's case so unusual is that he claims not just one, but two former CEOs of OnPath, Mignhon Tourné and Sonya Jarvis, subjected him to numerous incidents of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation that created a hostile work environment leading to his termination. Based on these allegations prohibited by federal and state laws, Harney is suing the credit union in a Louisiana federal court, and a full report on the story is set to be published in the Oct. 14 print edition of CU Times.
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OnPath filed an answer to Harney's lawsuit denying his claims. Nevertheless, the credit union declared itself as a third-party plaintiff against Jarvis alleging that her actions were intentional and reckless, which breached her executive duties, damaging the credit union's reputation that caused revenue losses and the lack of confidence among its 137 employees.
Harney was hired in July 2010 as director of operations for what was then named ASI Federal Credit Union.
According to court documents, within the first few months after being hired, Tourné allegedly sexually harassed Harney, which included claims that she repeatedly told him the sexual acts she would do to him and that they should run away together even though she knew he was married.
Tourné stepped down from her job in 2016 when Jarvis took over the helm in May.
Harney claimed Jarvis began setting up more meetings with him during which she would tell him that "she had sexual fantasies" about Harney and the sexual things she would do at night while she thought about him and repeatedly told him about the sexual acts that she wanted to perform on him, according to court documents.
In January 2019, Harney was contacted by a lawyer for the credit union's supervisory committee. During their three-hour meeting, the lawyer questioned whether Harney had an improper relationship with Jarvis and about sexual harassment.
Because Harney alleged Jarvis threatened him about saying anything to the lawyer, Harney claimed he was nervous during the questioning and only gave "as much detail as was absolutely necessary."
Harney said he was unlawfully terminated in June. Sometime after that, Jarvis landed the CEO's job at the $367 million Navigator Credit Union in Pascagoula, Miss.
Additional details about this case and the chances that it will end up before a jury will be published in the Oct. 14 print edition of CU Times.
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Peter Strozniak
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