An Oklahoma home improvement and design company will pay $150,000 to three former employees and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a co-owner of Sunrooms and More Design Center in Edmond harassed female employees almost daily, including making sexually-charged comments and touching female employees without their consent.
The unwelcome conduct, which started in November 2021, was reported to another owner, but the company took no action to address the complaints. Instead, the owners withheld one female employee’s bonuses in retaliation for her complaints, leading to her constructive discharge.
The alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex-based discrimination and retaliation. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Sunrooms and More Design Center, Case No. 24-cv-1016-PRW) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.
The three-year consent decree settling the suit provides monetary damages to three former female employees who endured the owner’s sexual harassment, including the employee who was retaliated against after reporting the unlawful treatment.
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