On September 30, 1998, the Memphis and Little Rock offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against FCR Tennessee, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainants (who intervened as private plaintiffs in the case) by subjecting them to sexual harassment in the workplace. We don't have the complaint for this case, so we have no further information on the allegations made.

On July 19, 1999, the plaintiff-intervenors filed a consent order of dismissal with the district court, voluntarily dismissing their claims against the defendants and agreeing to bear their own costs of litigation. On April 5, 2000, the EEOC and the defendants informed the court that they had settled the case, and on May 23, 2000, the district court adopted their consent decree and dismissed the case. Under the terms of the decree, the defendants agreed to pay $50,000 in damages, to be divided equally among the 5 complainants. Each party agreed to bear its own costs of litigation. The defendants were enjoined from discriminating unlawfully against any employee or retaliating against any employee who complained of such discrimination. They agreed to expunge the complainants' employment records of any reference to this lawsuit, and they agreed to provide each complainant with a neutral reference letter. The defendants agreed to place a written warning regarding sexual harassment in the personnel files of the two supervisors whose behavior was the reason for this lawsuit. They agreed to prohibit these male employees from supervising women in their work. The defendants agreed to train all of its employees at the Memphis facility regarding non-discrimination policies within 90 days of the consent decree. Finally, the defendants also agreed to post and distribute notice of the company's equal employment opportunity policies to each employee at the Memphis facility.

Kristen Sagar - 03/19/2008


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