Mavis Discount Tire to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle EEOC Class Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

Tire Retailer Violated Federal Law by Systemically Refusing to Hire Women in Its Field Locations, Federal Agency Charged

NEW YORK - Mavis Discount Tire, Inc. / Mavis Tire Supply Corp. / Mavis Tire NY, Inc. / Cole Muffler, Inc., a large tire retailer based in the New York metropolitan area, will pay $2.1 million and provide other relief to settle a class sex discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

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Cintas Corporation to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle EEOC Class Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

Uniform Company Refused Jobs to Class of Women for Years; Federal Agency Wins Victory After Years of Litigation

INDIANAPOLIS - Cintas Corporation, a major uniform manufacturer and supplier, will pay $1,500,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

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Court gives EEOC broad latitude in bringing bias suits

Chcago Tribune By Kristin Samuelson Tribune reporter 12:07 p.m. CDT, May 16, 2012 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been authorized to act on behalf of discrimination victims even if the victims had not been individually identified before a lawsuit was filed, the agency announced Wednesday. The order by Judge Ruben Castillo of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denies an employer's motion for summary judgment in EEOC vs. United Road Towing. United Road Towing contended that the EEOC did not satisfy administrative requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-court-gives-eeoc-broad-latitude-in-bringing-bias-suits-20120516,0,2100689.story

Massive EEOC class action slashed to two claims on appeal

Lexology
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Gregory V. Mersol
USA
March 21 2012

On February 22, 2012, the Eighth Circuit handed the EEOC a major defeat in a putative class-wide sexual harassment case it had brought against a trucking company. EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc.pdf, Case Nos. 09-3764/09-3765/10-1682 (8th Cir. Feb. 22, 2012). While the court vacated, at least for the present, a $4.5 million sanction against the Commission, its holding vastly reduced what it claimed to be a case involving hundreds of women trucking employees.

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Supreme Court blocks massive sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart

The Washington Post
By Robert Barnes, Published: June 20

The Supreme Court on Monday blocked the nation’s largest-ever sex discrimination case, ruling in favor of Wal-Mart in a decision that raises significant hurdles for other class-action suits brought against big corporations.

As many as 1.5 million current and former female workers could have been included in the class suing Wal-Mart, the world’s largest private employer, and the company faced the possibility of owing billions of dollars in back pay. But the court’s conservatives said the women had not proved they had suffered from a common policy of discrimination.

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EEOC Sues Over India Immigrant Workers' Treatment

ABC News/Money
Associated Press

A federal agency claims in a lawsuit filed this week that hundreds of people recruited in India to work for an oil rig construction company in Mississippi and Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were forced into oppressive living arrangements and subjected to harsh language and discriminatory working conditions.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit Wednesday against Signal International LLC in U.S. District Court in Gulfport, Miss., alleging discrimination based on race and place of birth. The lawsuit seeks class action status for about 500 Indians who came to the United States on the H-2B guest worker program to take jobs as welders and pipefitters in Pascagoula, Miss., and Orange, Texas.
Signal International did not respond to messages left by The Associated Press seeking comment.

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Supreme Court to Decide Wal-Mart Class-Action Lawsuit

Workforce Management
December 7, 2010

The Supreme Court agreed Dec. 6 to decide whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. must face what could be the largest workplace class-action lawsuit ever certified.The case—Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Betty Dukes et al.—involves charges that Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart paid female employees less than men in comparable positions despite higher performance ratings and seniority. The six female employees who brought the lawsuit, initially filed in 2001, also allege that women received fewer and waited longer for promotions to in-store management positions than men.The lawsuit seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, lost pay and punitive damages.

Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/section/news/article/supreme-court-decide-wal-mart-class-action-lawsuit.php

Court to look at huge sex bias suit vs. Wal-Mart

The Washington Post
The Associated Press
Monday, December 6, 2010

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will consider throwing out a massive lawsuit that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently.
The justices stepped into a case Monday that could involve 500,000 to 1.5 million women who work or once worked at the world's largest private employer. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. calls it the largest employment class action in history.

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/06/AR2010120602733.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

Discrimination suit targets UMiami credit screen

The Associated Press
Posted on Tuesday, 11.23.10

MIAMI -- A federal lawsuit contends that University of Miami credit history checks of job candidates discriminate unfairly against minorities.
The potential class-action lawsuit filed Monday claims that use of credit histories in hiring decisions violates the Civil Rights Act. The suit argues there is no link between credit histories and job performance or trustworthiness. It also says minorities tend to have more credit issues than whites and others.

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Lawsuit Press Release
PR Web

Lawsuit Accuses University of Miami of Racial Discrimination for Rejecting Job Applicants Based on Credit History

http://www.prweb.com/releases/University_of_Miami/Discrimination_lawsuit/prweb4820444.htm

A Million Women vs. Wal-Mart

The New York Times
Published: August 30, 2010
Editorial

For nine years, Wal-Mart has fought to stave off a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company has long discriminated against its female workers in pay and promotions. So far it has avoided a trial on the merits of the issue. The battleground instead is whether the million or so women who have worked for Wal-Mart since 2001 really constitute a class, which the company vigorously disputes. In 2004, a federal district court judge said they did, and in April the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling the case could proceed.
Now Wal-Mart has taken the class issue to the Supreme Court. It is probably a smart legal move, given the court’s clear tendency to rule in favor of corporations, particularly when big classes or discrimination claims are involved. We hope the court resists the temptation to toss out the case, which would force women to file lawsuits one by one. Wal-Mart’s employment practices deserve a full hearing.

Full Editorial: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/opinion/31tue2.html?th&emc=th

Report Warned Wal-Mart of Risks Before Bias Suit

The New York Times
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
June 3, 2010

More than six years before the biggest sex discrimination lawsuit in history was filed against Wal-Mart Stores, the company hired a prominent law firm to examine its vulnerability to just such a suit.
The law firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, found widespread gender disparities in pay and promotion at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores and urged the company to take basic steps — like posting every job opening and creating specific goals to promote women and minorities — to avoid liability.
The 1995 report said that women employed by Wal-Mart earned less than men in numerous job categories, with men in salaried jobs earning 19 percent more than women. By one measure, the law firm found, men were five and a half times as likely as women to be promoted into salaried, management positions.
Without significant changes, the lawyers said in their confidential analysis, Wal-Mart “would find it difficult to fashion a persuasive explanation for disproportionate employment patterns.”
In 2001, seven women filed a class-action suit on behalf of all women working at the company. They complained of a general pattern of discrimination in pay and promotions.

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Quinnipiac's female athletes granted class action status

CTPost.com
Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer
Published: 10:53 p.m., Monday, May 24, 2010

BRIDGEPORT -- The discrimination case brought against Quinnipiac University by female athletes got bigger Monday.
U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill made it a class action case ruling that "all present, prospective and future female students at Quinnipiac University who have been harmed by and want to end" sex discrimination in the allocation of athletic opportunities, financial assistance or benefits provided to varsity athletes may seek to join the case.
Underhill will try the case, without a jury, on June 21.

Full Story: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Quinnipiac-s-female-athletes-granted-class-action-498423.php