In September 2004 the Tampa Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Rooms To Go, Inc. and R.T.G. Furniture Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging harassment on the basis of sex and race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...
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In September 2004 the Tampa Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Rooms To Go, Inc. and R.T.G. Furniture Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging harassment on the basis of sex and race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant harassed complaining parties, two female employees, by permitting a work environment hostile to their sex and to the race, African-American, of one of the complainants. The complainants intervened in the lawsuit in December 2004. Following extensive discovery and some mediation, the parties settled the lawsuit in May 2006 through a consent decree.
The three-year decree, containing anti-discrimination and retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: report on complaints and make compliance reports, provide and permit the EEOC to monitor training sessions, retain a monitor of employee complaints, revise and post notice of its anti-harassment policy, and pay $275,000 to be distributed among two complainants and their two attorneys.
The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.
David Friedman - 11/06/2007
- 06/10/2017
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