A waitress has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Megu, a high-end Japanese restaurant in New York, and its parent company, claiming a head cook groped her, molested her with kitchen utensils and sexually harassed her. Satomi Southward claimed that management employees from the parent company were always present at Megu but did nothing to stop the harassment. Southward claims the head cook's actions also encouraged others to harass her; one former cook faces criminal charges of sexually abusing Southward.
September 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A waitress filed a $20 million lawsuit against a high-end Japanese restaurant in one of New York’s trendiest neighborhoods, claiming its head cook groped her, molested her with kitchen utensils and sexually harassed her.
Satomi Southward, 31, of Fukuoka, Japan, said that from January 2005 into spring she worked without incident at the Megu restaurant, in Manhattan’s TriBeCa area, but in the following months became the victim of sexual “ridicule and insult.”
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