In June 2006, the New York District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against transportation provider Washington Group International, Inc. and 21st Century Rail Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant failed to promote the two complaining parties to supervisory positions based upon their gender. Following some discovery and several judicial conferences, the parties settled the lawsuit in October 2007 through a consent decree.

The two-year decree, containing anti-discrimination and retaliation language, required the defendants to: report complaints and make other compliance reports, keep records, allow the EEOC access for monitoring, post notice of employee rights, provide gender and racial statistics regarding vacancies and how they are filled, provide EEO training, and pay $70,000 to two individuals. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

David Friedman - 05/12/2008
- 06/11/2017


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