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Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants in ten states and multiple locations in the Houston area, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to sex-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit.

According to the EEOC, the employee was harassed by her immediate supervisor after she attempted to break off their personal relationship. Upon the termination of their relationship, the supervisor refused to provide the employee with sufficient product, labor and services to her store.

The employee notified human resources about her supervisor’s inappropriate behavior, and she was assigned to work under another supervisor. Approximately two weeks later, she was presented with multiple writeups and terminated, the EEOC said, in retaliation for opposing what she believed to be unlawful discrimination.

Such alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects individuals from sex-based harassment and workplace retaliation. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ayvaz Pizza, LLC d/b/a Pizza Hut, Civil Action No.: 4:24-cv-04876) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its voluntary conciliation process.

The EEOC seeks monetary relief for the victim, including back pay, and compensatory and punitive damages. The EEOC also seeks injunctive relief against the company to end any ongoing sex-based harassment and retaliation, and to prevent such unlawful conduct in the future.

The EEOC’s Houston District Office has jurisdiction over southeast Texas, as well as all of Louisiana.

Source: EEOC

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