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E-mail this storyMar 19, 7:37 am ET
SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) – Former staff of Complete Meals Market have sued the pure meals grocery store operator, saying it didn’t take correct motion to forestall a male buyer from parading by way of a Santa Fe retailer carrying white, see-through biking shorts with no underwear.
Closing arguments within the case had been held on Thursday.
Maria Bautista and 7 different plaintiffs are suing below New Mexico’s Human Rights Act, saying the shop fostered an atmosphere of discrimination and sexual harassment that brought on them emotional misery. They’re in search of an unspecified quantity in damages.
In addition they declare the shop ignored their complaints a couple of middle-aged man within the see-through, body-hugging shorts and fired one in all them in retaliation for her criticism. They declare the person was not escorted out of the shop despite the fact that the staff requested managers to behave.
The incident came about at a Santa Fe retailer about 4 years in the past. Legal professionals for Austin, Texas-based Complete Meals Market Inc. , stated one of many plaintiffs was fired for insubordination whereas the others left for quite a lot of causes. The legal professionals stated the claims are an try to reap monetary acquire and retaliate for the one worker being fired.
