Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000
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In September 2000, the Minneapolis Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against IFP, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota alleging discrimination on the basis of race and national origin in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by creating a hostile work environment for Hispanic employees. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. A consent decree was proposed shortly after the defendant's answer in October 2000, and was accepted in December 2000.
The thirty-month decree, containing a non-discrimination clause, required the defendant to pay a specified amount of money to all class members based upon the number of days they had worked for defendant, expunge the employment records of class members, not restrict employees from speaking languages other than English in their facilities during non-working times and permit other languages to be spoken unless business necessity required otherwise, modify defendant's hiring policies and anti-discrimination policy, provide workplace diversity training, support English classes for Hispanic workers and Spanish classes for supervisors and translate employee handbooks and benefit packages into other languages as requested.
Summary Authors
David Friedman (10/18/2007)
Last updated March 20, 2024, 3:11 a.m.
State / Territory: Minnesota
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Key Dates
Filing Date: Sept. 29, 2000
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
IFP, Inc (Faribault), Private Entity/Person
IFP, Inc. (Faribault, Minnesota), 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
Order Duration: 2000 - 2003
Content of Injunction:
Expungement of Employment Record
Other requirements regarding hiring, promotion, retention
Post/Distribute Notice of Rights / EE Law
Provide antidiscrimination training
Issues
Discrimination-area:
Harassment / Hostile Work Environment
Discrimination-basis:
National origin discrimination
EEOC-centric:
National Origin/Ethnicity: