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11.10.2009 2:00pm EST
(Phoenix) National restaurant chain The Cheesecake Factory Inc. has agreed to pay $345,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it let some male employees sexually harass other male workers in suburban Phoenix.
The settlement announced Tuesday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission includes a requirement that the company train its employees and managers about sexual harassment.The EEOC lawsuit alleged company managers knew about repeated sexual assaults against six male employees by a group of male kitchen staffers at a restaurant in Chandler, Ariz., but did not intervene. The EEOC says the company denied the allegations.
Messages seeking comment from the company, based in Calabasas, Calif., were not immediately returned.
FYI, this anti-Gay attitude is rapanant in AZ. Chandler has the “honour” of paying damages in class action lawsuit brought in 1998 because the city council told their local police to arrest anyone who “looks Hispanic”