In December 2002, the EEOC district office in San Francisco, California brought this suit against RY-4, Inc., doing business as Roy's Poipu Bar & Grill, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. Although the complaint is unavailable, the EEOC press release states that three female intervenor employees alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it allowed one of its managers to create and maintain a sexually hostile work environment. After extensive discovery and the withdrawal of a defense motion to dismiss the complainants' state claims, the parties settled and a consent decree was entered in November 2003.

Although the consent decree is unavailable, the EEOC press release states that the parties agreed that the defendant would pay the women a lump sum of $245,000, revise its complaint procedures, provide EEO training to all is managers and supervisors, and submit semiannual complaint reports to the EEOC. The terms of the decree ran for three years.

Joel Pettit - 08/02/2007


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