Hamilton v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Dane County entered in a Chapter 227 review of a decision of the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations (DILHR), Equal Rights Division. That decision reversed the hearing examiner’s finding that Appleton Electric Company (Appleton) discharged and refused to reinstate petitioner-appellant Cathy Hamilton (Hamilton) because of her rejection of sexual advances made by Hamilton’s supervisor and Appleton’s personnel manager and her subsequent protest of such conduct. The circuit court affirmed the DILHR Commission’s findings of…