In August 2006, the Phoenix District Office and Washington, DC office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against MRS Associates Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant paid the complaining party less than men with equivalent positions and retaliated against one complaining party for her opposition to these practices. Following some discovery, the parties settled the lawsuit through a settlement agreement in August 2007.

The eighteen month agreement, containing prohibitions against discrimination and retaliation, sexually harassing employees and paying lower wages to any employee based on sex, required the defendant to: report on complaints and make other compliance reports, keep records, allow access to the EEOC for monitoring, expunge the complainants' employment records, provide neutral references, develop an anti-discrimination policy, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, institute a complaint resolution mechanism, place records of complaints in the offender's personnel file, and pay $157,500 to be distributed among two individuals. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

Daisy Manning - 04/16/2008
- 06/13/2017


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