$1.26m award over sexual harassment lawsuit

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has won a sexual harassment lawsuit after a jury in federal district court returned a $1,260,080 verdict. The verdict settled the EEOC’s suit against a grocery store in New York State that had charged that a class of female employees, many of whom were teenagers still in high school at the time, was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment by the store’s general manager for more than 10 years.