SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a complaint on September 24 in Sacramento against National Raisin Company and Select Staffing to correct unlawful employment practices based on sex (female) and to provide appropriate relief to three charging parties and a class of similarly aggrieved individuals to sexual harassment, including a hostile work environment based on their sex (female).
According to the complaint, National Raisin Company from 2015 until the present, the company had at least 201 employees, while Select Staffing from 2015 until the present had at least 501 employees. It is alleged that National Raisin employed an individual, identified as “John Doe,” from at least 2006 until 2017. John Doe worked in National Raisin’s Bulk Line Department and had the authority to reassign employees from one position to another, to assign shifts to employees, including overtime work, and to have employees terminated.
During John Doe's time, he sexually harassed multiple women, including the Charging Parties and a class of similarly aggrieved individuals, by allegedly: leering at female employees while touching his genitals; touching female employees without their consent; touching his genitals while watching female employees; rubbing himself against female employees; demanding that female employees have sex with him; threatening to have them fired; and telling them that if they complained about the harassment nothing would happen.
Females have documented harassment that dates back to 2006, the EEOC says. It is alleged Select Staffing knew about John Doe and his behavior with the women and nothing was done to stop him or protect the women from his actions, which makes them at fault for the harassment.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California case number 1:21-cv-01424-NONE-HBK