Simply Slims, L.L.C., doing business as Slim Chickens, will pay $300,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.
Headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Slim Chickens is a fast-casual restaurant with more than 200 locations; franchisee operator Simply Slims, L.L.C. owns 13 locations in Central Arkansas, including one in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company received two complaints of sexual harassment by a shift manager at the Hot Springs location on or before April 2022; however, the company allowed the shift manager’s harassment to go unchecked. The company’s inaction continued through July 2022, when four more young female workers complained of sexual harassment against the same shift manager, according to the suit.
Slim Chickens’ alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sexual harassment. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Simply Slims, L.L.C., Case No. 6:23-cv-06090) in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Hot Springs Division, after first trying to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.
The two-year consent decree resolving the charge, entered by Chief U.S. District Judge Susan O. Hickey, requires Slim Chickens to revise and distribute its sexual harassment policy and provide sexual harassment training to all employees for two years.
Source: EEOC
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