EEOC seeking male victims in anti-discrimination lawsuit against Greensboro-based chain Kickback Jack's
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking input from people who may have been discriminated against by a Greensboro-based restaurant company in multiple states.
According to a release sent out on Wednesday, the EEOC invites male job applicants who were not hired at Kickback Jack's restaurants in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to contact the agency about a possible sex discrimination case.
The EEOC filed suit against Kickback Jack's parent company, Battleground Restaurant, Inc., in September 2024, for 'failing or refusing to hire male applicants who applied to non-managerial front-of-house positions' such as server, bartender or host. The EEOC alleges these violations occurred between December 2019 and February 2022.
In the initial lawsuit filing, the EEOC stated that 'Battleground has no legitimate business justification for failing to hire males in these positions,' and that only 3% of the non-managerial front-of-house workforce were male, with some restaurants having no male front-of-house staff at all.
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'Title VII does not allow employers to exercise hiring preferences based on sex without a legitimate business justification,' said Melinda C. Dugas, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District, at the time of the lawsuit's filing.
'Male applicants who sought employment as a server, host and/or bartender with any of the defendants' Kickback Jack's restaurants in North Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia, but were not hired, or who were hired into a different position, may be claimants in this lawsuit,' the release states.
Anyone who believes they may have been impacted by these alleged unfair hiring practices should call the EEOC at (984)-900-5910 or email them at 'kickbackjacks@eeoc.gov.'
Kickback Jack's has several locations across the Piedmont Triad, including two in Greensboro and one each in High Point, Asheboro and Winston-Salem, among other locations across North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
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