In June 2006, the Chicago District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Satisfied Frog, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant's owner and another manager sexually harassed the charging party, a female employee, and other female employees and retaliated against the charging party by terminating her when she complained of the harassment. After numerous scheduling orders and status hearings, the parties settled in April 2007 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: prohibit one of the harassers from entering its premises for two years, hire a complaint monitor to receive complaints and report to the EEOC, post a notice of the decree, keep records of all complaints of sexual harassment, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, provide Title VII training for its employees, and pay $17,000. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2010.

Michele Marxkors - 07/10/2007
- 06/13/2017


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