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Pizzeria owners deny harassment
August 18, 2009
The owners of Pizza & Sub Express in Hull, Ga., claim that a sexual harassment lawsuit a federal agency has filed against the business is simply retribution from a female worker who was fired for fighting with another employee at work.
The suit alleges that the restaurant's general manager regularly smacked a teenage employee's behind with kitchen utensils and commented about her breasts.
The teenage worker claims she complained to other supervisors and the owners about the manager, but they failed to do anything about the situation.
According to the Athens Banner-Herald:
The (owners of the restaurant) not only deny the charges of sexual harassment but say the terminated employee made sexual advances of her own toward another female employee, and when she was spurned, got into a fight with the other worker, according to the response. During work hours, the teenager encouraged another female worker to have an affair with her, according to the response. On Nov. 23, after the teen made sexual advances toward the other employee, the two women got into a shouting match, went outside the restaurant and had a "physical altercation," the documents said. Both were fired, according to the documents. Pizza & Sub Express asks the court to dismiss the claims against the business and order the EEOC to pay for any legal costs the business incurs because of the suit. |
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