In September 2004, the Seattle District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Micro Encoder, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging discrimination on the basis of age in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant refused to hire the charging party, a qualified individual who was fifty years old, as an engineer because of his age. After a couple of scheduling orders, the parties settled in January 2005 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree contained a non-discrimination clause and required the defendant to: revise and distribute its EEO policy, provide EEO training for all its managerial employees, expunge the charging party's personnel file of all references to the charge of discrimination, designate a hiring coordinator to supervise the hiring process, report to the EEOC on an annual basis, post a notice of the decree, and pay $82,750 to the charging party. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Michele Marxkors - 07/03/2007
- 06/15/2017


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