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Employees Were Verbally and Physically Harassed and Forced to Quit Because of Intolerable Working Conditions, Federal Agency Charges
NEW YORK – Stardust Diners, Inc., a restaurant that has operated for decades in East Meadow, Nassau County, N.Y., under the name Colony Diner, violated federal law by subjecting its female employees to harassment on the basis of sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, the Colony Diner’s owners and other male employees created, encouraged and tolerated a work environment in which female servers and hostesses experienced unwelcome verbal commentary and physical touching on a daily basis. Women who objected to the harassment were assigned to sections of the restaurant in which they earned very few tips in retaliation for their complaints. Because the unlawful environment was condoned by management, the w