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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Scalo Restaurant, an Albuquerque restaurant located in the city’s Nob Hill neighborhood, violated federal civil rights laws when its male managers sexually harassed female employees and then retaliated against those female workers who spoke out against the abusive conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, two male managers subjected female employees to relentless sexual harassment, including: vulgar comments about female

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Academy Mortgage Corporation, an Albuquerque mortgage lending company, has entered into a public conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge, the federal agency announced today.

This agreement resolves a charge of discrimination filed against Academy Mortgage and ends an investigation in which the EEOC determined there was reasonable cause to believe Academy Mortgage violated Title VII. A former supervisor at the company is

NEW YORK – KTG Hospitality, LLC, doing business as Wall Street Grill, a fine dining restaurant in Manhattan, will pay $45,000 to one former employee settling a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, kitchen workers and managers at Wall Street Grill subjected a pastry cook to sexual overtures, verbal abuse, and unwanted physical contact. The suit also alleged that Wall Street Grill’s managers witnessed

NEW YORK – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed lawsuits today against two New York employers charging the companies with allowing egregious sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Whether a restaurant, car dealership or other business, no employer should ignore sexual harassment, let alone condone or encourage it,” said Kimberly Cruz, regional attorney for the EEOC’s New York District Office. “The two lawsuits filed today

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Sandia Transportation, L.L.C. has agreed to pay $97,500 to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The lawsuit alleged that Sandia Transportation subjected four female employees to disparaging and discriminatory comments, creating a hostile work environment for them because of their sex, sexual orientation, or because they did not conform to gender stereotypes for women. One of the female employees

NEW YORK – Green-Lantern Inn, Inc. and Pullman Associates, LLC, two commonly-owned Rochester, New York-based companies that own and operate the Mr. Dominic’s on Main and Mr. Dominic’s at the Lake restaurants in Rochester, New York, will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Rachel Clifford and other female employees were

NEW YORK – Coughlin, Inc., a Vermont-based company that owns and operates ten McDonald’s franchise restaurants in Vermont and New Hampshire, will pay $1,600,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the State of Vermont, and Plaintiff-Intervenor, the Estate of Jennie Lumbra, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, employees at the Randolph, Vermont McDonald’s location were subjected

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque-AMG Specialty Hospital, LLC and Acadiana Manage­ment Group, LLC, operating AMG Specialty Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., will pay $82,481 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that AMG violated federal law by subjecting a female director of case management, Moriah Smith, to a sexually hostile work environment, and that AMG’s failure to

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Ojos Locos Sports Cantina in Albuquerque will pay $700,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit charging sex-based harassment and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The owner/operators of the relevant businesses are Ojos Locos Sports Cantina, LLC; Ojos Locos Sports Cantina DOS, LLC; Ojos Locos Sports Cantina TRES, LLC; Ojos Locos Sports Cantina Cuatro, LLC and Reach Restaurant Group, acting as