In September 2003, the Los Angeles District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Canyon Lake Property Owner's Association, doing business as Country Club Restaurant, and six Does alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It appears from the EEOC press release that the defendant subjected two female dishwashers and other female employees in its restaurant to a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against the charging party after she complained. The complaint specifically alleges that defendants subjected complainants to unwanted touching and derogatory comments. Complainant additionally alleges that the defendant responded to her reports of harassment by terminating her employment. Following some discovery and referral to mediation, the parties settled the lawsuit in April 2005 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing an anti-retaliation clause, required the defendant to: report on complaints and make other compliance reports to the EEOC, keep records, retain an EEO consultant, develop an anti-discrimination policy, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide annual training to all staff, implement a complaint resolution process, alter its performance evaluations for supervisors and managers to include compliance with anti-discrimination and retaliation policies, and pay $285,000 to be distributed among two individuals and a class fund administered by the EEOC. The docket sheet shows that no further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Jason Chester - 01/12/2008
- 06/07/2017


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