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MIAMI - As part of its increased enforcement efforts to eliminate racial bias and national origin discrimination in the workplace, the U.S

                                     

CLEVELAND - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a class lawsuit alleging pregnancy discrimination against Cincinnati Bell Telephone and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems.  The suit charged the companies with discriminating against pregnant employees under 1995 early retirement plans by denying them proper service credits for time spent on maternity leave

   

BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $625,000 settlement with London International Group, LLC (LIG) in a lawsuit charging the Eufaula-based plant, which manufactures condoms, with subjecting a class of employees to a hostile work environment in which they have been subjected to numerous racially and sexually derogatory cartoons and comments since 1995.

     

"This settlement sends a strong message to employers in Alabama and across

   

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a final rule rescinding parts of its Interpretive Guidance on Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) involving mitigating measures used by an individual to eliminate or reduce the effects of an impairment.  A text of the final rule is scheduled for publication in today's Federal Register.

   

"In keeping with our commitment to provide timely guidance to our

                                     

BALTIMORE -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $1 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Grace Culinary Systems, Inc. and Townsend Culinary, Inc. alleging egregious sexual harassment of 22 Hispanic women at a food processing plant in Laurel, Maryland.  The suit charged the companies with routinely subjecting the female workers

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released   a new chapter to its Management Directive 110 setting forth the authority for   settlement of federal sector discrimination disputes. The guidance contained   in the chapter is intended to facilitate settlement of federal sector EEO cases   at all stages of the complaint process.

"The Commission strongly supports the earliest possible settlement of EEO   complaints in appropriate cases," said EEOC Chairwoman

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today   released a new section to its Compliance Manual on "threshold" issues, the factors   considered by the Commission in determining who can pursue a legal claim of   employment discrimination.

"This new Compliance Manual section will be extremely helpful not only to agency   staff, but also to employers, workers, and their representatives," said EEOC   Chairwoman Ida L. Castro. "It contains a wealth

Commission Forms Equal Pay Task Force, Expands Web Site To Mark Equal Pay Day

                                   

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the formation of an internal Equal Pay Task Force and the addition of a new section on its Internet web site on employment discrimination in compensation.  The purpose of the new initiatives

Agency's Largest Monetary Settlement for Race Discrimination in State of Arizona

                                     

PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that  several African American former employees of Direct Marketing Services' Peoria, Ariz., facility  will receive a total of $700,000 as part of the terms of a consent decree settling charges of racial harassment and

Agreement Opens Doors For Women and African American Applicants in Non-Traditional Jobs At Port Newark

                                     

NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Toyota Logistics Services, Inc. today announced a voluntary agreement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that the manner in which TLS recruited drivers and auto accessories installers at its Port Newark

   

BALTIMORE - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $45,000 settlement of a lawsuit against the Baltimore Cable Access Corporation (BCAC), an operator of public access cable television, for firing a female manager after she complained about sex-based wage discrimination.

   

A Consent Decree between the EEOC and BCAC, which resolved the suit, was approved on April 25 by U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake of the District

   

DETROIT -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) today announced the settlement of a lawsuit in which the EEOC alleged that EMU engaged in unlawful sex discrimination when it paid its only female professor in its Industrial Technology Department less than her male colleagues for doing essentially the same work.

   

From 1991, when she was first hired by the university, to 1997, Dr. Pamela Speelman

   

CHARLOTTE, NC - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced today that it filed a racial harassment lawsuit against Sara Lee Knit Products, Inc. The suit alleges that Sara Lee Knit Products subjected a former employee, Jeffery C. Hemphill, to a racially hostile work environment.

   

According to the complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Shelby Division, Sara Lee violated Title VII of

   

COLUMBIA, SC -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit today against Augusta Fiberglass and Coating, Inc., alleging that a class of African American employees was subjected to race discrimination and a racially hostile working environment from 1979 until present at the company's Blackville, South Carolina, plant.

     

According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in Orangeburg, Augusta Fiberglass violated

Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal   Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will be in Charlotte April 27-28 to   meet with community and business leaders to discuss strategies for creating   discrimination-free workplaces and to encourage voluntary compliance with the   laws enforced by the EEOC.

                                   

DETROIT -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has obtained a consent order from United States District Judge Avern Cohn, after filing an Application for Preliminary Injunction in an egregious case of employment discrimination against Advantage Staffing, Inc.

   

On March 9, 2000, a former employee of Advantage Staffing, Inc. filed

 

*** Public Forums To Be Held In St. Louis, Los Angeles, and                       Washington, D.C. ***

   

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it will hold three town hall meetings in major cities across the country to discuss recent and on-going reforms to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint process for federal employees.  The public meetings are

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EEOC CHAIRWOMAN TO MEET           WITH COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS LEADERS IN ARIZONA

   

PHOENIX - Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will be in Phoenix March 23-24 to meet with community and business leaders to

Madison, Wis. -- A federal court here has rejected Chuck E. Cheese's' efforts to overturn a November jury verdict that found the company liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for firing a mentally retarded janitor.

     

The jury originally awarded $13 million in punitive damages against the national pizza chain.  In the decision issued yesterday, the court reduced that amount as required by the ADA, but imposed the maximum allowed under

   

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that two of its attorneys have been selected to participate in a newly created Government Fellowship Program of the American Bar Association (ABA).  Under the program, EEOC legal staff with a record of excellence in civil rights law will serve as members of the ABA's EEO Committee, part of the Section of Labor and Employment Law.

   

"The Commission's participation in

                               

WASHINGTON  - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create and implement an interagency Attorney Honor Program.  The program is designed to expand the application process and attract a broad range of talent among entry level attorneys with a demonstrated interest in civil rights

                               

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to clarify the application of the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) to federal government workers.  The text of the NPRM is scheduled for publication in today's Federal Register and is also available on the Commission's web

   

Chicago, IL. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") announced today that Judge David H. Coar of the United States District Court in Chicago has entered a $1.3 million Consent Decree resolving an EEOC racial and sexual harassment lawsuit against Foster Wheeler Constructors, Inc. ("Foster Wheeler").  The lawsuit, which EEOC filed in 1998,  arose from complaints EEOC received regarding racial and sexual harassment at a Foster Wheeler construction project in Robbins, Illinois. The

Also Agrees to Make Corporate Wide Changes in Hiring and Training

PHOENIX -- The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Arizona Center for Disability Law today announced a settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.  Under the terms of a consent decree, approved by Judge William Browning, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. agrees to pay $132,500 to Jeremy Fass and William Darnell, two applicants who are deaf.  Fass and Darnell, who