In February 2005, the Charlotte District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Dennis' Foods, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina alleging that the defendant subjected the charging party, a female employee, to a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After some scheduling orders and discovery, the parties settled in July 2005 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: expunge the charging party's personnel file of all references to the charge of discrimination, provide her with a positive employment reference, implement and distribute an anti-discrimination policy, post an employee notice, provide Title VII training for all its employees, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, and pay the charging party $2,500. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Justin Kanter - 07/26/2007
- 06/11/2017


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