SSC Montrose San Juan Operating Co., LLC, SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services, LLC, and Sava Senior Care LLC (collectively, “Sava”) violated federal law by tolerating the sexual harassment of female employees by Sava’s clients at the San Juan Living Center in Montrose, Colorado, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, clients at the San Juan Living Center repeatedly subjected female employees to sexual harassment. The EEOC alleged that Sava’s clients would grab female employees’ breasts and buttocks, ask them for sexual favors, and use inappropriate sexual language around them. The EEOC further alleged that female employees complained about the harassment to Sava management and that Sava was aware of the ongoing harassment. According to the EEOC, Sava did nothing to stop the harassment or prevent future harassment. The EEOC also alleged that Sava retaliated against a female employee who reported the harassment by suspending her without pay and firing her within days of her complaint. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sexual harassment and retaliation. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the female employees subjected to the sexual harassment, backpay for the employee subjected to retaliation, and appropriate injunctive relief to prevent similar discrimination in the future.
