The owner of the Laughlin River Lodge casino-hotel will pay $1.2 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in 2023 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal government agency announced Tuesday.

Las Vegas-based Nevada Restaurant Services Inc., which also owns the Dotty’s, Bourbon Street and Red Dragon chains of casinos and sports bars, also agreed to post a notice of the settlement and agreed to implement additional measures to deter and respond to incidents of sexual harassment.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, male and female employees of Nevada Restaurant Services were subjected to both verbal and physical sexual harassment by co-workers and supervisors. The EEOC alleged the company knew of the harassment and failed to effectively a

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