The New York District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Ventiv Pharma Services (now known as inVentiv Pharma Services, a Division of inVentiv Health, Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in September 2006. The complaint alleged sex discrimination based on pregnancy in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The defendant allegedly did not grant more than six weeks of leave to pregnant women, but did allow others to take more than six weeks of leave for other medical reasons. The complainant was allegedly discharged for attempting to take more than six weeks of leave.

The parties entered into a consent decree in March 2008 after several settlement conferences with Magistrate Judge John J. Hughes. The consent decree required the defendant to post and distribute its new, non-discriminatory leave policy; maintain a database of leave requests to ensure that discrimination does not occur; train its employees on federal anti-discrimination laws; and submit semiannual reports to the EEOC for the duration of the two-year decree. The defendant also paid $26,000 to the charging party for backpay, and $26,0000 to the charging party for compensatory damages. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2010.

Jason Chester - 05/29/2008
- 06/11/2017


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