Owners of a North Dakota Applebee’s To Pay $1 Million to Settle EEOC Lawsuit

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A federal district court in Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 1 approved a settlement that will require the owners of a south Bismarck Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar to pay $1 million to 17 former workers who had claimed they were subject to sexual harassment and retaliation when they worked there (EEOC v. Apple Core Enters. Inc.).

Under the consent decree approved by the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, Apple Core Enterprises Inc. and Food Management Investors Inc., both of Minot, N.D., also agreed to institute a number of policy changes so as to ...