EEOC drops Hooters sex-discrimination probe
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal agency has ended its four-year sexual-discrimination probe of the Hooters restaurant chain that sought to force the chain to hire waiters and not just waitresses.
A spokesman for Rep. Harris Fawell, R-Illinois, chairman of a House subcommittee on employment, said Fawell received a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saying it had ended its investigation.
The chain did, AFAIK, settle a privately-filed lawsuit.
That's what I had thought, although I can't say I followed the case all that closely. The whole situation struck me as a good reason to close the EEOC down entirely. If the worst example of discrimination they could find was Hooters that means the USA must be an egalitarian paradise.