In September 2002, the Baltimore District Office of the EEOC filed this suit against RG's Food Shops of Pennsylvania, Inc. and Bedford Valley Petroleum Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleging discrimination and retaliation on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant subjected the three charging parties, female employees, to a sexually hostile work environment, and reducing the work hours of and eventually discharging one of the complainants in retaliation for engaging in protected conduct. One charging party intervened in the suit in January 2005. Following some discovery and mediation, the parties settled the dispute in December 2005 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing a non-discrimination and non-retaliation clause, required the defendant to: expunge complainants' employment records and provide them with neutral references, post and distribute notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, implement a complaint/dispute resolution process, send certain compliance documents to the EEOC, admit the EEOC to enter for monitoring purposes at the EEOC's discretion, and pay $105,000 to be distributed among three individuals and pending class members. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

David Friedman - 10/10/2007
- 06/12/2017


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