Central Valley Business Times:
Jack in the Box franchisee Kobra Associates Inc., which operates about 70 restaurants in Northern and Central California, violated federal law by allowing a manager at its Paradise store to sexually harass female employees under his supervision, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the harassment by the Jack in the Box restaurant manager included frequent remarks about female employees’ anatomy and unwelcome sexual advances and innuendos.
Despite complaints, including messages left with Jack in the Box’s ethics hotline, the EEOC says, the company failed to take corrective action.
Faced with ongoing harassment after a year of raising the issue to the company through multiple avenues, one woman was forced to resign in order to escape the targeted attention of the restaurant manager, the EEOC said. Read more.