The EEOC's Phoenix office filed this suit on September 23, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Desert Schools Federal Credit Union. The complaint was filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Complainant alleged that Defendant refused to promote employees who were not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and/or who were black. The EEOC additionally alleged that Defendant subjected this class of individuals to unfavorable terms and conditions of employment and allowed a hostile work environment to develop.

After extensive discovery, in February 2005 the parties filed a motion for entry of consent decree. The consent decree was entered on March 8, 2005 and has a duration of 36 months. The defendant agreed to pay $65,000, to be divided among the four named complainants. The defendant additionally agreed to post notice of EEO rights, provide training, expunge the complainant's employment record and prepare an apology letter. The training would be given to all supervisory employees and would take the form of a live seminar, to be offered each year, for three years. The docket sheet shows that no further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Jason Chester - 03/09/2008
- 06/07/2017


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