Group: Sexual harassment rife in restaurants

Group: Sexual harassment rife in restaurants
Bruce Horovitz
USA TODAY
October 7, 2014

Some 90% of women in restaurant jobs that depend on tips report being bothered at work by some form of sexual harassment, according to a scathing report on the restaurant industry out Tuesday...

...Among the report's key findings:

• Women living off tips in states with a $2.13-per-hour tipped minimum wage are twice as likely to be sexually harassed as women in states that require the full minimum wage to for workers.

• Tipped workers in states with a $2.13 tipped minimum wage were three times more likely to be told by managers to wear "sexier" clothing than in states where the same minimum wage is paid to all workers.

• Two-thirds of women and half of men surveyed experienced some form of sexual harassment by a restaurant manager, owner or supervisor....

MORE at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/business/2014/10/07/restaurant-industry-restaurants-sexual-harassment/16826065/