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Manwaring at Paul's Big M
Last Friday the EEOC announced that a jury returned a $1.2 million verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the agency on behalf of female employees, many of whom were teenagers at the time of the filing, against Paul’s Big M grocery store in Oswego, N.Y.
At trial, women testified that the company’s general manager, Allen Manwaring, made sexual propositions, described his sex life with the store’s owner Karen Connors and touched and grabbed them in private areas. Perhaps the most shocking detail to come out during the trial is that Manwaring suggested a sexual threesome with one teenage cashier’s mother.
The women also testified that the relationship between Manwaring and Connors, who were engaged, was one of the reasons the store refused to take action in response to repeated complaints.
The EEOC reported that despite evidence of numerous complaints to management and the police the company failed to take necessary steps to stop the harassment.
For more on the case and the verdict, visit click here.
