The Seattle District Office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against High Fruit Growers, Inc. in September 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. The complaint alleged that the defendant subjected the charging parties to sexual harassment because of their sex (female). The charging parties intervened in the suit in July 2004, and the case settled by entry of a consent decree in February 2005.

The four year consent decree required the defendant to pay a lump sum of $150,000 to the charging parties. The consent decree also requires the defendant to comply with Title VII, retain a consultant to create or enhance an anti-discrimination and harassment policy, enhance its complaint procedure, create a policy designed to promote supervisor accountability, give bi-annual reports to the EEOC, institute anti-discrimination and harassment training, expunge the record of the charging parties, give neutral references to the charging parties, and post a notice of equal employment rights during the consent decree. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

Kevin Wilemon - 05/31/2007
- 06/12/2017


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