What was the outcome of the Autozone discrimination suit?
The EEOC charged in 2006, that an AutoZone store in Starke, Fla., forced women to have to listen to offensive sexual language over a period of time. These women were employees for the company and the AutoZone chain actually fired one woman after she complained about being subjected to this type of abuse. The EEOC’s lawsuit claimed that when a new manager was hired at the store, on his first day of work upon introducing himself that he did so in a crude and vulgar manner. The lawsuit also claimed that he used explicit sexual boasting and comments which never ceased from that day forward. The manager felt compelled to share details about his personal sex life and boasted about a customer that wanted him to have sex with his daughter as an even exchange on specific auto parts. He also made comments on the size of female employee’s breasts. The AutoZone store also employed a female manager at the time as well as other female employees who all made complaints to the store manager but all ef
