In May 2006 the San Francisco District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Esparza Enterprises, Inc. and Grimmway Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Grimmway Farms, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendants created a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against the complainant for opposing this practice. The complaining party intervened in the lawsuit in May 2007. Following some discovery and a motion for summary judgment by the defendant that was not resolved, the parties settled the lawsuit in November 2007 through a consent decree.

The two-year decree, containing anti-discrimination and retaliation provisions, required the defendants to: make compliance reports, keep records, allow the EEOC access for monitoring, develop an anti-discrimination policy, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, agree to impose discipline upon violating supervisors/managers, and pay $175,000 in damages to a complaining party. The docket sheet shows that no further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

David Friedman - 04/24/2008
- 06/07/2017


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