In March 2003, the Houston District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Frontier Materials Company, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to promote and appropriately compensate the charging party, an African-American employee, because of his race. After some discovery, the defendant filed a motion for partial summary judgment in December 2003 which was denied in January 2004. Thereafter, the EEOC filed a motion for partial summary judgment in February. However, the EEOC's motion was never resolved because the parties settled through a consent decree in early March 2004.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: post a non-discrimination notice, provide EEO training for its managers in the Houston area, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, distribute the required notice to its managers, provide the charging party with a neutral employment reference, and pay $45,000 to the charging party.

Michele Marxkors - 07/02/2007


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