Filed Date: June 29, 2006
Closed Date: 2010
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On June 29, 2006, the Los Angeles office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Sierra Aluminum in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the complainant's rights by subjecting her to harassment. We have no further information on the specific allegations made, since we have only the docket and the consent decree in this case.
On August 2, 2007, the parties settled the case. Fifteen days later, the court approved their consent decree and closed the case. Under the terms of the consent decree, the defendants agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve the complaint. The defendants were prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against any employees violation of Title VII, and they were required to develop an anti-discrimination policy to post at the place of business and distribute to all employees. The defendants were required to include compliance with EEO policies as a measure of performance in each employee's annual performance review. The defendants agreed to retain an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission consultant to ensure that they comply with the terms of the decree. Defendants were required to provide a mandatory intensive three-hour EEO training program for all management and human resources personnel each year. All other employees were to be required to attend a similar program for one hour each year. The defendants agreed to form a complaint process that provides employees with accessible and confidential avenues of complaint. This process was to allow the employees to report their complaints to someone outside their chain of management, provide confidentiality for all complaints, involve timely investigation of all complaints, and allow for remedial action to be taken.
The EEOC was allowed to send a representative to observe the EEO training that would be provided to all of the defendant's employees. Within 90 days, the defendants were to provide a copy of all policies and procedures formulated as a result of the consent decree, as well as certification of the mandatory training that they were to require of all employees. In addition, the defendants were to also provide semiannual reports of all complaints and the results of the ensuing investigations. The defendants were required to maintain a record-keeping procedure that provided for centralized tracking of all complaints and the monitoring of such complaints to prevent discrimination. This included all documents generated as a result of a complaint of harassment. The terms of the agreement were to run for 3 years. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2010.
Summary Authors
Kristen Sagar (4/28/2008)
Clearinghouse (6/7/2017)
For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4143405/parties/us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-v-sierra-aluminum-company/
Park, Anna Y. (California)
Viramontes, Victor (California)
Griffin, Gerald A (California)
Scalabrini, Gary Edward (California)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4143405/us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-v-sierra-aluminum-company/
Last updated April 6, 2024, 3:02 a.m.
State / Territory: California
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Key Dates
Filing Date: June 29, 2006
Closing Date: 2010
Case Ongoing: No
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on behalf of one or more workers.
Plaintiff Type(s):
Attorney Organizations:
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
Sierra Aluminum Company, Private Entity/Person
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Title VII (including PDA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e
Available Documents:
Injunctive (or Injunctive-like) Relief
Outcome
Prevailing Party: Plaintiff
Nature of Relief:
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief:
Form of Settlement:
Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Amount Defendant Pays: 200000
Order Duration: 2007 - 2010
Content of Injunction:
Develop anti-discrimination policy
Other requirements regarding hiring, promotion, retention
Post/Distribute Notice of Rights / EE Law
Provide antidiscrimination training
Implement complaint/dispute resolution process
Issues
General:
Discrimination-area:
EEOC-centric: