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15 Jul 2011

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Business Insurance Now

Supermarket company faces class-action lawsuit for alleged sexual harassment [USA]

Fred Meyer [part of Kroger] has been sued…by three former employees that claim the supermarket chain was guilty of sexual harassment. The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission will represent the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit. The supermarket's employees claim a customer in the store repeatedly groped them while they worked. Furthermore, the employees allege that store managers failed to discuss the matter with the victims and told them to continue serving the customer. While a representative for Fred Meyer did not offer a comment regarding the lawsuit, she did confirm that the store's policy allows store managers to tell a customer to leave for harassing staff…