OSI Restaurant Partners, the Tampa parent of the Outback Steakhouse chain, will pay $19 million and create a new human resources executive position to settle a gender discrimination class action lawsuit being tried in Colorado.
“Hopefully this major settlement will remind employers about the perils of perpetuating promotion practices that keep women from advancing at work,” said Stuart J. Ishimaru, acting chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a release.
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