(By Tim Klass, Associated Press) Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse Inc. has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a sexual harassment case brought by three employees in Longview, Wash., including one who said she was sexually assaulted in 2006.Under the three-year consent decree signed Thursday by U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, Lowe's also must revise policies on discrimination, harassment and retaliation; provide training on those concerns to all employees at the company's 37 stores in Washington state and 13 stores in Oregon; and report regularly to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, which filed the lawsuit.“Severe sex-based harassment of young workers was permitted to run rampant at one of the nation's largest retailers,” Acting EEOC Chairman Stuart Ishimaru said in a statement.
Lowe's Settles Harassment Case, Pays $1.7million
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