In April, Elizabeth Carroll, 39, arrived at work at Franz Bakery in Springfield, dressed in her company whites with her gloves and hairnet at the ready. She would clock in for her shift in the bun wrap area of the bakery’s production floor, where she packages Franz’s hamburger and hot dog buns in plastic bags, each printed with the company’s signature blue logo. It was routine — as if it were any other day of the 16 years she’s worked there.

It had been two weeks since she’d been to work. Instead, she had been in a Lane County courtroom as a jury heard a sexual harassment and discrimination case Carroll filed against Franz more than a year earlier.

The jury heard evidence that her supervisor at Franz routinely made sexual advances, that he subjected her to retaliation when she refused th

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