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US restaurant fined $19m for discriminating against women employees | An Australia-themed US restaurant has been fined 19 million dollars over sex discrimination charges against thousands of its women employees at hundreds of branches across the country. A lawsuit filed against Outback Steakhouse
in federal court in 2006 said that the chain discriminated against female employees
and denied them equal opportunities for advancement. It added that female employees
couldn't get promoted to the higher-level profit-sharing management positions
in the restaurants and were denied favorable job assignments, particularly kitchen
management experience. Tom Flanagan, a joint venture partner, allegedly said female
managers had "let him down" and "lost focus" when they had children, ABC's Denver
affiliate reported. He also allegedly said women managers had trouble "saying
no" and expressed a desire for "cute girls" to work as servers. "There are still
too many glass ceilings left to shatter in workplaces throughout corporate America.
The EEOC will continue to bring class lawsuits like this one against employers
who engage in gender discrimination on a systemic scale," The Daily Telegraph
quoted Equal Employment Opportunity Commission acting chairman Stuart Ishimaru,
as saying. The lawsuit settlement also requires the Outback launch an online application
system for employees interested in managerial and other supervisory positions,
hire a human resource executive in the newly created position of vice president
of people and employ an outside consultant for at least two years who will determine
compliance with the settlement terms and analyse data from the online application
system to determine whether women have equal opportunities for promotion. |
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