In June 2003, the Detroit Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Benchmark Residential Services, Incorporated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, the intervenor complainant's complaint alleges the defendant subjected her to sexual harassment based on her sex, female, and that she was terminated from her position after she refused to have sex with her supervisor. Following defendant's successful motion to change venue from the Southern Division to the Northern Division in July 2003, the complainant intervened in the lawsuit in October 2003. After a series of status conferences, the parties settled the lawsuit in July 2004 through a consent decree.

The consent decree, containing an anti-retaliation clause, required the defendant to: provide and report to the EEOC regarding Title VII training, restore the complainant's position and make provisions for her insurance coverage, post notice of employee rights, and pay $99,000 to the complainant as monetary relief and interest.

The decree was entered in 2004 and scheduled to last 2007. No further docket entries exist, so the case is closed.

David Friedman - 11/13/2007
- 12/21/2018


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