BALTIMORE – Koerner Management Group, Inc. (KMG), which operates IHOP restaurants in Maryland and Virginia, has agreed to pay $125,000 and provide significant injunctive and other non-monetary relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the company by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC’s lawsuit alleges that at least two female, teenaged KMG employees were subjected to pervasive sexual harassment by a male manager. The alleged harassment included graphic sexual comments and questions about employees’ sex lives, groping, displaying pornographic material, and conditioning employment actions on responses to the manager’s sexual propositions. The lawsuit also charges that KMG was aware of the manager’s conduct but did not take appropriate steps to address it. Further, the employees were forced to quit because of the harassment, the EEOC said.
KMG’s alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination because of sex, including sexual harassment. The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Case No. 1:21-cv-00652GLR) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The case was litigated by EEOC Trial Attorney Thomas Rethage and Supervisory Trial Attorney Maria Morocco.
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