In September 2005, the Memphis Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendants subjected the charging parties, female employees, to a sexually hostile work environment, resulting in the constructive, and in one case retaliatory, discharge of the charging parties. The charging parties intervened in the lawsuit in January 2006. Following some discovery and mediation, the parties settled the lawsuit in September 2006 through a consent decree.

The two-year decree, containing agreements not to discriminate or retaliate, required the defendant to: expunge complainants' employment records, provide a neutral reference, post and distribute a notice of employee rights, provide managerial training regarding sexual harassment laws, revise its existing anti-harassment policies, report complaints to the EEOC every six months, provide written verification of compliance with certain general requirements, keep records of all persons undergoing sexual harassment prevention training, retain a consultant knowledgable in employment discrimination law to review defendant's policies and managerial training program, and pay $253,500 to be distributed among four individuals.

Daisy Manning - 10/16/2007


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