Paramoor, Inc., operator of restaurateur Randy Paragary's Sacramento area establishments, will pay $60,000 to two former employees and take remedial steps to avoid future workplace discrimination to settle a lawsuit filed by the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The agency charged that Paramoor allowed the sexual harassment of two line cooks at the former Paragary's Bar and Oven in Gold River, which has since been sold and is operating under new management and a new name.
According to the suit, the kitchen manager and a co-worker sexually harassed Leticia Fernandez and Juana Jimenez. The harassment included lewd comments and gestures, questions about their sex lives, propositions, and slapping them on their buttocks, it alleged.
When the women asked for the harassment to stop, Paramoor failed to adequately investigate or remedy the illegal behavior, the suit claimed.
Under a consent decree agreed upon by Paramoor and the EEOC, the company denies culpability but agrees to pay $60,000 to the women. The restaurant group, which includes 12 restaurants and bars in and around Sacramento, will also provide sexual harassment training for its supervisors and human resources manager, and will revise its policies and procedures for handling sexual harassment complaints.
Paragary could not be immediately reached for comment.
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The agency charged that Paramoor allowed the sexual harassment of two line cooks at the former Paragary's Bar and Oven in Gold River, which has since been sold and is operating under new management and a new name.
According to the suit, the kitchen manager and a co-worker sexually harassed Leticia Fernandez and Juana Jimenez. The harassment included lewd comments and gestures, questions about their sex lives, propositions, and slapping them on their buttocks, it alleged.
When the women asked for the harassment to stop, Paramoor failed to adequately investigate or remedy the illegal behavior, the suit claimed.
Under a consent decree agreed upon by Paramoor and the EEOC, the company denies culpability but agrees to pay $60,000 to the women. The restaurant group, which includes 12 restaurants and bars in and around Sacramento, will also provide sexual harassment training for its supervisors and human resources manager, and will revise its policies and procedures for handling sexual harassment complaints.
Paragary could not be immediately reached for comment.
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