In September 2004, the Indianapolis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Prodesign, LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana alleging that the defendant subjected the two charging parties and a group of similarly situated female employees to a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One of the charging parties intervened in the suit in December 2004. After some discovery and a scheduling conference, the parties participated in a settlement conference in September 2005, resulting in a tentative agreement. The parties entered into a final agreement through a consent decree in October 2005.

The two-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: post a notice of its non-discrimination policy, expunge the charging parties' personnel files from all references to the charges of discrimination, provide the charging parties with neutral employment references, provide Title VII training for all its employees, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, and pay $3,000.

The decree was entered in 2005 and scheduled to last until 2007. No further docket entries exist, so the case is closed.

Michele Marxkors - 08/02/2007
- 12/21/2018


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