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Posted: Monday, 02 November 2009 9:16PM
Lawry's settles male sex discrimination suit
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Herald-review.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lawry's restaurant chain will pay $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed it barred men from waiting tables at its fancy steakhouses.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the agreement Monday, which ends a 3-year-old sex discrimination lawsuit.
A Los Angeles judge must still approve the consent decree, which covers Lawry's restaurants in Southern California, Las Vegas, Chicago, Dallas and overseas.
The company will make $500,000 available to pay discrimination victims and $525,000 for training and advertising campaigns.
Lawry's marketing director Rich Cope says the company has been in compliance with the law since 2004 and is glad the case has been resolved.
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