![]() Additionally, Keystone will issue a written statement to all employees at its Eufaula facility stating it will not violate Title VII by retaliating against employees or job applicants who engage in activity protected under Title VII. The two-year consent decree resolving the suit prohibits Keystone from discriminating and retaliating against employees in violation of Title VII. 2:21-cv-00629-MHT-JTA) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama after its Birmingham District Office failed to reach pre-litigation settlement via its voluntary conciliation process. This alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which protects pregnant workers from employment discrimination and bars employers from retaliating against employees who report pregnancy discrimination or file an EEOC charge against their employer. ![]() Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.Īccording to the EEOC lawsuit, Keystone extended job offers to a group of 17 former employees during a series of job fair interviews for positions in its Eufaula plant, but retracted its offer to a female former employee when a records review revealed she previously filed a complaint of pregnancy discrimination and an EEOC charge against her former employer. – Keystone Foods LLC, which operates a food processing facility in Eufaula, Alabama, agreed to pay $60,000 to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. More information is available at Stay connected with the latest EEOC news by subscribing to our email updates.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The EEOC advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC’s Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of employment discrimination, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. For more information on race and color discrimination, please visit. The EEOC is seeking back pay, compensatory damages, and punitive damages for the former employee, as well as injunctive relief to prevent future discrimination.įor more information on sex-based discrimination, please visit. ![]() Julie Bowman, district director of the Chicago District Office, added, “The EEOC will continue to enforce Title VII to ensure that employers provide women with young children at home the same opportunities for career advancement as other workers and that nursing mothers are not provided inferior lactation spaces based on race.” “Federal law clearly prohibits employers from making discriminatory promotion decisions based on sex stereotypes and requires employers to provide equal working conditions for their employees regardless of race.” “It is inexcusable and unlawful that qualified women are still facing these kinds of discriminatory barriers to career advancement in the workplace,” said Gregory Gochanour, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Chicago District Office. The EEOC’s litigation effort will be led by Trial Attorneys Hannah Henkel and Kelly Bunch and Supervisory Trial Attorney Justin Mulaire. et al., 22-cv-00037) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, (EEOC v. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on sex and race. Walmart also gave her an unsanitary storage closet to express her breast milk, a facility that was inferior to the clean office space it provided to a White employee for the same purpose. The EEOC’s pre-suit investigation revealed that Walmart failed to promote the employee to a management position at its Ottumwa store because it assumed she would not remain with the company long due to her having a newborn at home. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. OTTUMWA, Iowa – Walmart violated federal law when it gave a Black female employee an unsanitary lactation space based upon her race and failed to promote her based on sex stereotypes about mothers with small children, the U.S.
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