The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged Newport Beach, CA-based Chipotle Services LLC and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. with federal law violations after sexual harassment allegations.
According to a media release, Chipotle allegedly subjected young female employees to “egregious and ongoing sexual harassment from October 2019 to June 2020, severe enough to force two employees to leave their jobs.”
The lawsuit said the international fast-food chain cultivated a toxic work environment when “it allowed a male service manager and a male crew member to sexually harass several young female employees at its Sammamish, WA-based store.”
In 2019, a 29-year-old service manager began to target a 16-year-old worker with unwelcome sexual comments, touching and requests for sex, according to the lawsuit. After a different service manager reported her concerns, the general manager failed to investigate and instead warned the teen she could be fired for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with the service manager. Furthermore, the general manager continued to schedule the teen to work a closing shift with the alleged harasser. “Eventually, the service manager sexually assaulted the teenage worker and began subjecting others to harassment,” the lawsuit said.
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