New York Employer Pays $375,000 for Groping Teen Employees
May 21st, 2008 Posted by Amelia
A New York company will pay $375,000 to settle an EEOC sexual harassment lawsuit.
American Industrial Sales Corp doing business as RAK Industries, sells road construction barricades and signs. It also sells a variety of construction safety and personal safety items, as well as nuts and bolts, tools and personal safety equipment.
The Rochester, NY company website touts it as “one of the country’s most rapidly growing resources of highway, safety and industrial products to municipalities, police, fire, parks and recreation departments, schools, hospitals, golf courses and resorts across the United States.” The website also mentions the company’s “full service solution” for customers and “personal attention.”
It’s the personal attention to female employees, rather than customers, that got the owner in trouble.
The owner, vice president and sales staff of RAK Industries – according to the EEOC investigation and subsequent lawsuit – sexually harassed 18 female employees. The harassment includes inappropriate touching, unwelcome sexual advances and vulgar sexual comments, says an EEOC source.
Tragically, four victims were teenaged girls.
Dallas Employer Pays $1 Million for Sex Discrimination Against Men
May 19th, 2008 Posted by AmeliaA popular chain of Cajun restaurants based in Dallas agreed to pay $1 million and implement anti-discrimination policies after the EEOC charged in a class-action suit that the company was committing illegal discrimination against men.
In the suit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged that Razzoo’s refused to hire male bartenders, or to promote male employees to that position.
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