In September 2005, the Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Orkin, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the consent ...
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In September 2005, the Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Orkin, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. 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 reinstate the charging party, a Black employee, to his position as a service manager and paid him lower wages because of his race. After some scheduling orders, the parties settled in May 2006 though a consent decree.
The two-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: provide Title VII training for its managers and supervisors, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, post a Title VII notice, expunge the charging party's personnel file from all references to the charge of discrimination, provide the charging party with a neutral reference, and pay $75,000. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.
Michele Marxkors - 07/09/2007
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