A Strip edifice and its operators person settled the national intersexual harassment and retaliation suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Bouchon Restaurant, a casual French bistro astatine The Venetian, and the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the restaurant, volition wage $2 cardinal to settee the national suit brought by the EEOC, announced the bureau Wednesday.
None of the different restaurants nether the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group umbrella are involved, and personage cook Thomas Keller is not listed arsenic a suspect successful the lawsuit.
“Sexual harassment is amerciable and continues to beryllium a occupation successful the edifice industry,” said Beatriz Andre, acting determination lawyer for the EEOC’s Los Angeles District, which includes Las Vegas. “As it did successful this action, the EEOC volition proceed to enforce national law.”
The EEOC’s property merchandise said antheral supervisors and coworkers astatine Bouchon successful Las Vegas “subjected pistillate and antheral employees to intersexual harassment, including unwanted and repeated intersexual advances, intersexual comments, sexually violative behaviour and unwelcome carnal contact.” Additionally, Bouchon and Thomas Keller Restaurant Group failed to instrumentality enactment and adjacent retaliated against employees for reporting the incidents.
Male employees “frequently engaged successful sexually harassing behaviour arsenic well, including: asking pistillate employees to prosecute successful intersexual acts specified arsenic oral enactment successful assorted locations specified arsenic the walk-in freezer,” according to the suit filed successful the Nevada District tribunal against Bouchon, among galore others.
“It is disappointing erstwhile a nationalist bureau relies connected self-congratulatory, deliberately misleading clickbait headlines to distract from its ain existent interior and outer issues,” Thomas Keller Restaurant Group said successful a connection to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Bouchon Las Vegas continues to prioritize evaluating and improving workplace wellness and payment initiatives, and elected to resoluteness these astir decade-old claims to dedicate resources to our unit and guests alternatively of litigation.”
The harassment had been occurring since astatine slightest 2018, according to the EEOC. The harrassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits favoritism based connected sex, including intersexual harassment, arsenic good arsenic retaliation.
The EEOC brought distant 4 abstracted lawsuits against Bouchon and Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, the Laughlin River Lodge resort-casino, Mariscos El Puerto and La Catrina successful 2023. All alleged intersexual harassment toward employees by owners, supervisors and management, co-workers and/or customers; arsenic good arsenic verbal harassment and carnal battle against cheery and lesbian employees astatine Mariscos El Puerto and La Catrina, among others.
The Laughlin River Lodge settled for $1.2 million successful 2025. The different lawsuits person not reached a colony oregon ruling.
Contact Emerson Drewes astatine edrewes@reviewjournal.com. Follow @EmersonDrewes connected X.
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