Olive Garden Waitress Says GM Groped, Harassed Workers

A former general manager at an Olive Garden in Bay Shore, N.Y., hired female applicants based on their perceived attractiveness, traded raises and promotions for sex, and harassed women workers, a waitress at the restaurant claims (Baker v. Olive Garden, E.D.N.Y., No. 2:17-cv-00392, complaint filed 1/25/17).

Olive Garden and parent Darden Restaurants Inc. also failed to take action against James Kaiser after an initial complaint about his behavior and instead let him take leave for anxiety, Amanda Baker alleges in a lawsuit filed Jan. 25 in federal court. When Kaiser returned from leave, he took up where he ...