Former employee says she was sexually harassed by Shoney's employee

CHARLESTON - A former employee is suing Shorest 1450 LLC after she claims she was sexually harassed by another employee.

Bobby Moss; Shorest 1104 LLC; Shorest 1107 LLC; Shorest 1120 LLC; Shorest 1114; Rory Smith; and Shorest 1423 LLC were also named as defendants in the suit.

Scarlet Hypes was employed by Shorest 1450 to work as a waitress and to perform certain other tasks in the dining room and kitchen, according to a complaint filed July 8 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

Hypes claims during her employment she was sexually harassed by Moss.

Despite being put on notice of the hostile work environment and sexual harassment of Moss, the defendants failed to take reasonable measures to remedy and prevent the hostile work environment and sexual harassment, according to the suit.

Hypes claims the defendants allowed and acquiesced in sexually explicit conduct, sexual harassment, unlawful touching, hostile work environment and inappropriate sexual conduct in the workplace.

The defendants violated West Virginia code and public policy, according to the suit.

Hypes is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is being represented by David R. Barney Jr. of Thompson Barney and John W. Alderman III.

The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Tod J. Kaufman.

Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 13-C-1285