Secondly, the bartenders are often lighter skinned women who are either racially ambiguous and not Black. Furthermore, as people who rely on patrons spending money on them, men giving it to the bartenders, who are already being paid and tipped for their service, is taking money out of their pockets. In doing so, they’re distracting patrons from the actual strippers on stage who are much more athletic, more trained and who are doing the job which they were hired to do. In today’s strip club culture, bartenders are wearing provocative clothing and doing a little shake. Join/Renew Now and let SHRM help you work smarter.So what is the issue? Bartenders are now competing with the strippers. Was this article useful? SHRM offers thousands of tools, templates and other exclusive member benefits, including compliance updates, sample policies, HR expert advice, education discounts, a growing online member community and much more.

It was the club's practice to destroy the applications of people who did not advance beyond an interview, according to the complaint. Records which defendant has unlawfully failed to retain include … employment applications, including applications and/or resumes of male applicants.' The complaint said the club had 'failed … to make and preserve records relevant to the determination of whether unlawful employment practices have been or are being committed.

The EEOC also charged that the company violated Title VII by failing to maintain copies of employment applications and other records. Rucker, an EEOC attorney based in Birmingham, Ala. 'Although sex-based discrimination against women may be more common than against men, employers must realize that no person, male or female, can be denied employment based on sex, except in the rare instances when gender is a bona fide occupational qualification,' said Marsha L. The agency seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, and injunctive relief to prevent further discrimination.

'The effect of the practices … has been to deprive Sharp of equal employment opportunities because of his sex,' the complaint said. Such alleged conduct, the EEOC argued, violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating against job applicants because of gender. Sammy's subsequently hired at least two women for bartending positions at that location.Īccording to the lawsuit, Sammy's employed 17 women and no men in bartending positions at its Fort Walton Beach location the year that Sharp applied. Sharp, an experienced bartender, applied in person, when the manager allegedly told him that Sammy's did not hire male bartenders. 5, 2015, James Sharp tried to apply for a position as a bartender at Sammy's after seeing an online ad. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued a Florida strip club for sex discrimination after it refused to hire men for bartender positions.Īccording to the EEOC complaint, Gold Inc., doing business as Sammy's Gentlemen's Club in Fort Walton Beach, violated federal law by declining to hire a male applicant because of his gender and by failing to maintain federally required employment records.

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