Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2001
Closed Date: July 1, 2002
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In September 2001, the Dallas District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against WFC Limited Partnership, d/b/a World Finance Corporation, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, race, and interracial association in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, it was alleged that the defendant discriminated against the charging parties, a Caucasian female employee and an African American male employee, by subjecting them to inferior terms and conditions of employment and terminating them because of allegations that they had engaged in a consensual romantic relationship with each other. There was very little action in the case until July 2002 when the parties settled through a consent decree.
The two-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: distribute and post a Title VII notice, distribute its anti-discrimination policy to all its employees, and provide annual Title VII training for all its employees. In addition, the defendant agreed to provide the charging parties with neutral employment references, expunge their personnel files of all references to the complaints of discrimination, and pay them a total $119,500.
Summary Authors
Michele Marxkors (6/18/2007)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4389255/eeoc-v-wfc-limited-partner/
Last updated March 27, 2024, 3:12 a.m.
State / Territory: Texas
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Key Dates
Filing Date: Sept. 28, 2001
Closing Date: July 1, 2002
Case Ongoing: No
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on behalf of one or more workers.
Plaintiff Type(s):
Attorney Organizations:
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
WFC Limited Partnership, Private Entity/Person
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Title VII (including PDA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e
Available Documents:
Injunctive (or Injunctive-like) Relief
Outcome
Prevailing Party: Plaintiff
Nature of Relief:
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief:
Form of Settlement:
Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Amount Defendant Pays: 119500
Order Duration: 2002 - 2004
Content of Injunction:
Expungement of Employment Record
Post/Distribute Notice of Rights / EE Law
Provide antidiscrimination training
Issues
Discrimination-area:
Discharge / Constructive Discharge / Layoff
Other Conditions of Employment (including assignment, transfer, hours, working conditions, etc)
Discrimination-basis:
Race:
Affected Sex or Gender:
EEOC-centric: