In June 2004, the Phoenix district office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Circle S Stores, Inc. and Circle S Grocery, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the claimants by refusing to hire them for cashier positions because of their sex (male). The case settled during a settlement conference, and the court entered the consent decree in December 2005. The parties filed an amended consent decree in February 2006.

The three year consent decree required the defendant to refrain from discrimination and retaliation, pay the claimants $60,000, review and revise its anti-discrimination policies and procedures, use objective recruitment, place an advertisement in the Farmington newspaper that the defendant is an equal opportunity employer and announce job openings, provide Title VII training for all owners, managers, and other personnel with hiring responsibilities, distribute its anti-discrimination policy, post notice, give the EEOC reports every six months on compliance with the decree and the applicants for the cashier position, and allow the EEOC to have access to its premises to review compliance with the decree. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Kevin Wilemon - 07/26/2007
- 06/11/2017


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