On September 20, 2005, the Birmingham office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Factory Connection, LLC, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by discriminating against her on the basis of her race.

On October 10, 2006, the parties entered into a consent decree, which was adopted by the court three days later. Under the terms of the agreement, the defendants agreed to pay $12,500 in damages to the complainant. The defendants were prohibited from discriminating against any employee on the basis of their race or retaliating against any employee for complaining about such discrimination. The defendants agreed to provide at least one hour of racial discrimination training to all of its employees at the Elba location each year during the life of the decree. The defendants were required to mail a written report of the anti-discrimination training to the EEOC's Birmingham office. Defendants were required to give 15 days' notice of the anti-discrimination training to the EEOC so that they could attend the sessions. The defendants were required to keep a written record of all employees who attended the training sessions.

On November 21, 2006, the court entered final judgment and dismissed the case with prejudice, declaring that both parties should bear their own costs. The decree was to last for two years. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Kristen Sagar - 03/11/2008
- 06/13/2017


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