In September 2004 the Philadelphia District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against restaurant service provider Cactus-Lancaster, LLC and Mr. Brett R. Austin, doing business as Cactus Willie's Steak Buffet, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant subjected the two charging parties, female employees, and a class of similarly situated persons to a sexually hostile work environment and retaliation for opposition of this activity. After one scheduling conference and a settlement conference before the District Judge, the parties settled the dispute in September 2005 through a consent decree.

The consent decree required the defendant to: refrain from participating in discrimination or retaliation, to develop an anti-discrimination policy, to distribute this policy to empoyees, to provide anti-discrimination training, and to provide a Toll-Free number for employees to lodge complaints. Additionally, the defendant was required to pay $100,000, to be distributed among 6 claimants. The decree was to last for three years. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Keri Livingston - 10/01/2007
- 06/11/2017


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