Owner of Bar and Dance Hall Sexually Harassed Workers and Retaliated Against Employees Who Spoke Out, Federal Agency Charges
GREELEY, Colo. – ’Murica LLC, operator of the Western-themed Starlite Station bar and dance hall in Greeley violated federal law when it subjected employees to a sexually hostile work environment, then retaliated against employees who opposed the employer’s actions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC suit, ’Murica LLC, created a sexually hostile work environment for both female and male employees. The EEOC said the owner often touched female employees without their permission, and pursued sexual relationships with multiple female employees, including sending inappropriate sexual text messages, calling and messaging them late at night and pressuring female employees to let him sleep at their homes. According to the EEOC’s complaint, in January 2019, the bar owner had sex in the office at Starlite Station with a female employee when she was too intoxicated to consent. The EEOC also said that the bar owner made frequent unwelcome and sex-based comments about female employees’ weight and appearance, and suggested female employees who gained weight or whose appearance he disliked could risk losing their jobs.
The EEOC complaint also alleges that the bar owner made comments about the appearance of women who applied to work at Starlite, indicating that some women should not be...
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