In September 2004, the Pittsburgh Area Office of the EEOC brought this suit against P.T. Morgan Paper Company, aka P.T. Morgan Packaging Company, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the settlement agreement that the complaint alleged that the defendant subjected the charging party and other similarly situated Black employees to a racially hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, resulting in the charging party's constructive discharge. After several scheduling conferences, the defendant filed a motion for summary judgment in December 2005. The EEOC filed a cross motion for summary judgment in January 2006. Both motions were denied in February 2006. After some discovery, the parties settled in March 2006 through a settlement agreement.

The two-year agreement, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: provide the charging party with a neutral employment reference, post a notice of employee rights, implement and distribute its anti-discrimination policy and complaint procedure, provide Title VII training for all its managers and supervisors, and pay $20,000 to be distributed among four individuals. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.


Michele Marxkors - 06/10/2007


compress summary