The Los Angeles District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, against Royalwood Care Center LLC. The complaint, filed in March 2005, alleged pregnancy discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA); specifically that Defendant terminated the charging party on the basis of her pregnancy.

The Defendant moved to dismiss the complaint in July 2005, but the motion was denied in August 2005. The parties entered into a consent decree in November 2006. The decree, valid for 18 months, required Defendant to pay the charging party $20,000. Defendant was enjoined from discriminating or retaliating in violation of Title VII or the PDA, and required to provide annual employment discrimination training to its employees, adopt a policy against pregnancy discrimination and distribute the policy to its employees, and report regularly to the EEOC about its compliance with the decree. The decree was to last for 18 months. The docket sheet doesn't show show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Elizabeth Glassman - 07/20/2007
- 06/07/2017


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