In July 2003, the EEOC district office in Charlotte, North Carolina brought this suit against the J.W. Aluminum Company, a foil and sheet aluminum manufacturer, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The complaint alleged racial discrimination in violation of Title VII of ...
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In July 2003, the EEOC district office in Charlotte, North Carolina brought this suit against the J.W. Aluminum Company, a foil and sheet aluminum manufacturer, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The complaint alleged racial discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the allegations were that the defendant allowed its employees to use racial slurs and deface its premises with racial graffiti.
The parties settled and a consent decree was entered in March 2005. In the consent decree, the parties agreed that the defendant would refrain from retaliating and discriminating on the basis of race, establish a fund for potential class members in the amount of $225,000, provide EEO training, post EEO notices, implement an EEO policy, and make semiannual complaint reports. No fees or costs were awarded. The terms of the agreement ran for three years. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.
Jason Chester - 06/24/2007
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