In September 2004, the Memphis Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Mirabile Investment Corporation and Olive Oil Associates (doing business as Popeye's Chicken and Biscuit Restaurant) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendant subjected six of the charging parties, female employees, to a sexually hostile work environment and terminated one of the charging parties, a female employee, in retaliation for her complaints of sexual harassment, all in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After some discovery, the parties settled the lawsuit in July 2005 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: adopt a new policy regarding workplace harassment, post its anti-retaliation policy, regularly report to the EEOC regarding complaints about harassment, provide anti-retaliation training for all its employees, and pay $95,000 to be distributed among six charging parties. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

David Friedman - 10/02/2007


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