It’s almost unimaginable the torment that women in the American workforce face on a daily basis when face-to-face with sexual harassment. Women are reporting being raped, unwelcome touching in their private areas, and various forms of sexually-charged verbal harassment. One might ask “where do these women find the courage to get up in the morning and go to work?”
A Greensboro, N.C.-based restaurant franchisee violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to a sexually hostile work environment and then fired her for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, the young woman at the center of the suit worked as a cashier at the restaurant from November 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019. The EEOC charges that between approximately late November 2018 to January 25, 2019, the restaurant’s general manager made sexually inappropriate comments and requests for sexual relations to the young woman on a daily or almost daily basis. The EEOC’s lawsuit further charges that within days of the young woman complaining about the general manager’s conduct to one of the restaurant’s owners, the company fired the young woman in retaliation.
