Razzoo’s discriminated against dudes, pays a $1 million price

[The Straight Story]

Razzoo’s discriminated against dudes, pays a $1 million price

Razzoo's, a DFW-based Cajun restaurant chain, will have to pay $1 million to settle with a group of men who were discriminated against based on their gender and to enact new human resources policies, according to a press release put out by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday.

According to the release, Razzoo's would not hire or promote the vast majority of its male employees to be bartenders, preferring to keep that position filled with those of the female persuasion. That is a clear violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination. The lead attorney for the EEOC, Suzanne M. Anderson, said, "Some may think that sex sells drinks, but gender ratios are illegal ... A hiring ratio is illegal whether it is 80-20 whites to blacks or 80-20 women to men."

I say bravo -- it's about time those women stopped hogging all those bartending jobs. Of course, it makes one wonder how places like Hooters or Twin Peaks can even exist if such a gender ratio is illegal. Not that I would, um, know that there were more women than men there -- I'm just saying.

http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/may/08/razzoos-discriminated-against-dudes-pays-1-million/

[LisaL]

1. I dunno.

How does Hooters exist?
Do they have any male waiters?

[meow2u3]

2. They would have to rename the restaurant "Wieners"

:rofl:

[Luminous Animal]

4. RE: Hooters

"The Hooters restaurant chain has agreed to pay $3.75 M to settle a sexual discrimination suit brought by men turned down for jobs because of their gender. The settlement allows Hooters to continue luring customers with an exclusively female staff of Hooters Girls, but it must create a few other support jobs, such as bartenders and hosts, that must filled without regard to gender. The restaurant said its hiring practice is not discriminatory because the chain is "in the business of providing vicarious sexual recreation and female sexuality is a bonafide occupational qualification. 9-30-97"

http://www.epexperts.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=272

[Spangle]

3. Some one has to complain

How many men apply for the "Hooters Girl"? Of those that get turned down, how many were qualified for the job?