In January 2005, the Denver Field Office and Phoenix Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against The Joslin Dry Goods Company, doing business as Dillard's, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the decree; therefore, the exact remedies involved are unknown. The complainant intervened in the lawsuit in March 2005, and was voluntarily dismissed in February 2007. Following a highly contentious discovery period, the parties settled the lawsuit through a consent decree in March 2008.

The three-year decree, containing anti-discrimination and retaliation provisions, required the defendant to: report on complaints and make other compliance reports, keep records, allow the EEOC access for monitoring, create internal managers, develop an anti-discrimination policy, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, inform managers they have a duty to report observed inappropriate conduct, and pay $500,000 to be distributed among twelve individuals. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2011.

David Friedman - 06/10/2008
- 06/13/2017


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