Joe bastianich and mario batali
Joe bastianich and mario batali
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Twenty former employees of celebrity chef Mario Batali and his former business partner Joe Bastianich will split $600,000 following a four-year investigation into allegations the partners engaged in unlawful sex discrimination and retaliation, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday.
James said the investigation found Batali, Bastianich and their management company B&B Hospitality in violation of state and city human rights laws.
James said the investigation found that between 2016 and 2019, at least 20 employees "witnessed or personally experienced unwanted sexual advances, inappropriate touching, and sexually explicit comments from managers and coworkers, and several female employees were forcibly groped, hugged, and/or kissed by male colleagues."
Batali had also been accused of sexually harassing a female server by grabbing her hand and pulling it towards his crotch and showing a male serve a pornographic video, James added.
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