In September 2005, the Los Angeles Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Walker Wood Products in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant subjected the complainant to a hostile work environment and retaliated against her following her opposition to these practices. Following some discovery, the parties settled the lawsuit in January 2008 through a consent decree.

The two-year decree, containing an agreement not to discriminate or retaliate, was contingent upon the defendant continuing to operate their business in contradiction of the defendant's plans to cease operations in January 2008, and required the defendant to: report on complaints and make other compliance reports, keep records, allow access to outsiders for monitoring, provide a neutral reference for complainant and convert complainants termination to a voluntary resignation, post and distribute notice of anti-discrimination and retaliation policies, provide EEO training, and compliance with anti-discrimination policies to annual supervisor performance evaluations, and pay $50,000 to be distributed at the sole discretion of the EEOC. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement took place, so the case was presumably closed in 2010.

David Friedman - 04/11/2008
- 06/07/2017


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