ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against an Albuquerque restaurant claiming that it violated federal civil rights laws when it allegedly retaliated against workers who spoke out about two managers who reportedly sexually harassed them.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, which was filed on June 30, two men who were managers at Scalo, a fine dining restaurant in Nob Hill, sexually harassed women employees and reportedly made vulgar comments about female customers and employees. The managers also are accused of physically touching women employees without their consent; loudly and graphically discussing their sex lives and sexual preferences; and repeatedly asking their women workers to meet after work.
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The lawsuit also claimed that one of the managers allegedly reduced an employee’s hours and offered to give her more scheduled hours if she had sex with him. The EEOC said some of the women employees complained about harassment, but Scalo allegedly failed to take adequate corrective action.
Instead, Scalo allegedly fired some of the women employees or reduced their hours. The alleged abuse took place over multiple years, accoridng to the EEOC…