In August 2003, the Memphis Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Link-Paras, LLC, doing business as Comfort Suites and Microtel Inn & Suites in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the three charging parties, female employees, on the basis of sex, female, by subjecting them to sexual harassment and by terminating two of the employees in retaliation for their complaints about sexual harassment. Following some scheduling orders, the parties settled the lawsuit through a consent decree at the end of August 2004.

The three-year decree, containing an anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation clause, required the defendant to: develop an anti-discrimination policy which all employees must read and sign, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, report any complaint regarding sexual harassment and its resolution to the EEOC for three years, make certain compliance reports to the EEOC, and pay $35,000 to be distributed among three individuals.

Daisy Manning - 10/22/2007


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