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PRESS RELEASE
8-13-03

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Charging Party Richard Quick (center) is pictured with Deputy Director Hollis Larkins (right) and Regional Attorney Delner Franklin-Thomas (left), after signing the Settlement Agreement.

Regional Vice President Targeted African American Employees and Applicants

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a voluntary pre-litigation settlement of a race discrimination case against Supercuts, Inc., a nationwide chain of hair salons

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PRESS RELEASE
8-13-02

Five-Year Study Shows High Success Rate for Commission Lawsuits, Trials and Appeals

WASHINGTON - Approximately 91% of federal employment discrimination lawsuits by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are successfully resolved through Consent Decrees, settlement agreements, and favorable court orders, according to an extensive five-year litigation study released today by the EEOC. The report, covering Fiscal Years 1997 through 2001 (October 1, 1996 - September

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PRESS RELEASE
8-13-01

First Latina Chairwoman Reformed and Revitalized EEOC on Several Key Fronts

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Ida L. Castro, the agency's first Latina Chairwoman, has resigned as a member of the Commission. During her tenure as EEOC Chairwoman, from October 1998 through early August 2001, Ms. Castro implemented wide-ranging reforms throughout the agency which significantly improved its overall efficiency

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-98

* * * Enforcement Statistics to be Posted on Web Site * * *

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that the agency's pending inventory of discrimination charges has been sliced nearly in half, down from approximately 111,000 charges in fiscal year (FY) 1995 to 57,871 at the close of the third quarter (June 30) of FY 1998. The

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-09

Federal Agency Says Company Belatedly Hired Black Employee Only to Fire Him Shortly After

MILWAUKEE -- The largest metal food can supplier in North America, Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation, violated federal law by discriminating against an African American employee at its plant in Oconomowoc, Wis., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

The agency's administrative investigation which preceded the

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-09

DETROIT – A New Jersey-based trucking company violated federal law by firing a female truck driver just hours after learning of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC's suit (Case No. 2:09CV13116), filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the discrimination victim, a 30-year-old woman from Detroit who worked

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-09

Black Worker Fired for Protesting Unequal Treatment, Federal Agency Alleged

ST. LOUIS – A Washington Park, Ill., packaging and warehousing company will pay $57,500 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The suit alleged that Material Resources, LLC, which does business as Gateway Co-Packing Company, failed to provide

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-09

Native American Repeatedly Harassed at Colorado Drilling Rig, Federal Agency Charged

DENVER – Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LP, LLLP, will pay $45,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, EEOC v. Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LP, LLLP, 07-cv-02034 WYD-CBS, a Native American, employed from July through

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-09

Federal Agency Charges Propak Logistics Refused to Hire Non-Hispanics

SHELBY, N.C. – A nationwide freight management company violated federal law by refusing to hire non-Hispanics, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from around October 1, 2002, through June 30, 2004, Fort Smith, Ark.-based Propak Logistics, Inc. engaged in unlawful employment practices by refusing

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PRESS RELEASE
8-12-04

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From left to right: Joyce Pullman, Senior Investigator, Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, Atlanta District Director; Michael Davis, Vice President, Lucor, Inc.; and Brenda B. Webb, Enforcement Supervisor

Forty-Ninth Major Mediation Pact Between Federal Agency and Corporate America

ATLANTA - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Lucor, Inc., doing business as Jiffy Lube, today announced the signing of a Regional Universal Agreement to Mediate (RUAM)to informally resolve