These things just keep crawling out of the woodwork at Santa Cruz Operation Inc: following that out-of-court settlement of a sex discrimination lawsuit against company founder Larry Michels, who has resigned from the company, Santa Cruz has been sued again, US reports say: this time female plaintiffs are adding accusations of rampant cocaine abuse during working hours to their sexual harassment claims, which are very similar to accusations in the first lawsuit; the accusations go back to 1987 and Santa Cruz has raised the issue of the plaintiffs motives in filing the complaint now, describing the accusations as wholly without merit; the charge says cocaine was often used at Santa Cruz buildings and management did little to stop it; it all sounds pretty silly, and the plaintiffs are not saying they were harmed by its use there, but that it violated an implied element of the company’s employment contract by failing to provide a work environment free of conduct that jeopardises the welfare and safety of SCO employees.
