Outback Steakhouse To Pay $19 Million In Sexual Bias Suit

[Ian David]

Source: ABC-TV Denver

EEOC Says Restaurant Chain Failed To Promote Women To Management

DENVER -- Outback Steakhouse has agreed to pay $19 million to settle a major class lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination at its hundreds of corporate-owned restaurants nationwide, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.

According to the EEOC, Outback discriminated against thousands of female employees by not promoting them to higher-level profit-sharing management positions and denying them favorable job assignments that would help them be considered for top positions.

It is the largest EEOC discrimination settlement in state history, said Denver attorney Stephanie Struble who was a lead lawyer in the lawsuit.

According to the suit, filed in September 2006, managers allegedly made comments that disparaged women workers.


Read more: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22083205/detail.html

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Thank you Denver, City by the Bay! And fuck you, Santorum Steakhouse!

See also:

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Outback) -- no rules, just (far) right

Sen. Rick Santorum's "culture of death/culture of cash" tour of Florida last month is the gift that just keeps on giving.

As our colleague John Baer first told us last week, Pa. junior GOP senator mugged for the TV cameras outside a dying Terri Schiavo's hospice on his late March tour of the Sunshine State and cancelled a Social Security town hall meeting "out of respect" -- but went ahead with a series of political fundraisers aimed at raking on $250,000 for his 2006 campaign.

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But what wasn't reported -- until now -- is that Santorum is also carrying water on his political tray from yet another big-bucks donor behind that Florida jaunt: Outback Steakhouses.

The Web site Political Money Line has now begun to scrutinize the $104,500 that Santorum has reported receiving from Florida individuals and PACs so far in 2005. It writes (4th item -- scroll down):

Tampa itemized donors on 3/31 over $6,000 including $3,000 from the PAC of Outback Steakhouse. These may have come from a 3/30 luncheon in Tampa hosted by Outback according to news reports. The PAC had already given $5,000 in January.

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...Outback's 2,700 steakhouse managers and joint-venture partners are breaking bread with local government officials, tracking legislation and quietly donating $1.6-million of their own pay to build one of the country's biggest corporate PACs. Bigger than Boeing's, according to FECinfo.com. Bigger than Halliburton's...

More:
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/001745.html


Outback takes Santorum to an expensive lunch, gets lucky
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1783571

The most pro-Republican companies hate Christmas the most

Outback Steak House, one of Rick Santorum's biggest supporters-- a restaurant chain that gave more to the GOP than all other restaurants combined-- hates Christmas.

Home Depot, which has Donald Rumsfeld on its board of directors-- hates Christmas.

The following is a list from The American Family Association, into which I have inserted information from the BuyBlue.org website:

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5619309

Santorum raised $250,000 during Schiavo visit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1718771

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/7173788609

[depakid]

1. This is a horrible outfit that no one should ever patronize

Aside from the above- and their smarmy attempts to appear "Australian," this chain also forced employees to contribute to anti-worker organizations that among other things fought tirelessly against minimum wage increases.

Failure to contribute meant no chance of advancement into management positions.

[SnakeEyes]

6. Details?

Can you provide some details or link to details of who/where/when and what groups? I could really make use of this info!

[and-justice-for-all]

9. The OP has all the info I need...Rick Santorum = shit...nt

[Blue Owl]

2. Never been there

And never will based on this information...

[left coaster]

3. Good news! nt

[newtothegame]

4. Is Stephanie Struble donating all profits from this case to help fight discrimination in the future?

[pleah]

5. K&R I have never eaten at that restaurant and now I never will.

Glad they lost this lawsuit!

[timtom]

7. Isn't that weird?

I only ate there once, and that was out of ignorance.
Got bad vibes, man. Nothing has ever compelled me to go back.
And I knew naught of this back story.

My spider sense is always tingling...

[dballance]

8. Small Penis Disease

That's why this continues to happen to this day. Men who do not have the balls to promote a qualified woman should be castrated. WASP men are the most loathsome creatures in the business world.

[totodeinhere]

11. I wouldn't make such a blanket condemnation.

There are plenty of fine progressive WASP men. And hey, I'm a WASP, and I'm nice. LOL.

[Quantess]

12. White men are more sexist than men of other races? That's news to me.

Also, you might want to keep penis size out of it, as that correlation is dubious.

[burning rain]

10. Serves Outback right.

Shows they didn't learn an elementary lesson: it's alright to treat your workers like shit, but you have to treat them like equal shit regardless of gender, and divvy up the few decent positions equitably. This is America and we have our standards of fairness.

[WriteDown]

13. Did Rick Santorum invent the Bloomin' Onion?

He should have stayed out of politics and stuck to being a chef then.

[Quantess]

16. He's a Bloomin' Asshole.

Is that close enough?

[Captain Hilts]

14. Starbucks seems to prefer younger male managers than older women. nt

[mindwalker_i]

15. Fork it over boys

$19 million? That's a lot of steaks :9