HONOLULU – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Mexico Restaurant, Inc., a local restaurant on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, for racial and sexual harassment, the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC charged that since 2019, Mexico Restaurant allowed a bartender to sexually harass numerous female employees. The harassment included, but was not limited to, unwanted touching, excessive and inappropriate comments about the employees’ bodies and requests for dates. Complaints of this behavior were made to the general manager who ignored the complaints and refused to address the harassment. As a result of this ongoing harassment and the restaurant’s failure to address it, employees were left with no choice but to quit.
The EEOC further charged that since at least 2015, the general manager subjected an employee to racial harassment on a weekly basis by referring to her as a “white devil.” The employee objected to this behavior and even reported it to the owner of the restaurant. The EEOC contends that nothing was done to correct this behavior and the manager persisted with the harassment.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits a hostile environment based on race and sex, including sexual harassment. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Mexico Restaurant Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-00430) in the U.S. District Court for Hawaii after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its...
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