Sexual Harassment Class Action Suit Filed Against Two Largo Travel Companies

Five women, employees for Four Amigos Travel Inc. and Top Dog Travel Inc. Largo office, filed a sexual harassment law suit, alleging male supervisors at the companies acted inappropriately.

The class-action sexual harassment lawsuit was filed in Federal Court last week. 

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed the suit after the women complained that their supervisors acted inappropriately.

The suit alleges that the general manager and other male supervisors conducted sexually inappropriate sales meetings on a daily basis and asked females for sex. They would drum up sexually explicit conversations, use profane terms for female employees and inappropriately touch themselves and the female employees, according to the lawsuit.

In one instance cited by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a male supervisor showed a female employee a photo of his genitals and asked “Impressive, aren’t I?”

The class-action lawsuit comes after the EEOC failed to reach a voluntary settlement with the companies. The companies use telemarketers to sell vacation packages in three Florida locations including Largo. They employ more than 200 workers.

Miami Regional Attorney Robert Weisberg, of the EEOC, said in a press release “All employees have the right to work in an environment free of harassment,” and that “The EEOC continues, with this class lawsuit, to seek vigorous enforcement of the laws that protect all women from this kind of egregious discrimination.”

If the allegations are true they violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In the same release, Miami District Director Malcolm Medley said “Every employer needs to take action to remedy sexual harassment, which is a serious situation requiring serious attention. The EEOC will continue to aggressively pursue employers who tolerate and/or dismiss verbal and physical forms of sexual harassment in the workplace.”