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EEOC SETTLES MAJOR AGE BIAS SUIT; FOOT LOCKER TO PAY $3.5 MILLION TO FORMER WOOLWORTH EMPLOYEES

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-15-02

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has settled a class age discrimination lawsuit with retail giant Foot Locker Specialty Inc. for $3.5 million on behalf of a class of hundreds of older former employees of the F.W. Woolworth Company whose employment was terminated because of their ages during nationwide layoffs between 1995 and 1997.

"The EEOC commends Foot

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JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SWEARS IN EEOC CHAIR EARP, VICE CHAIR SILVERMAN, GENERAL COUNSEL COOPER

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Pictured from left to right are Ronald S. Cooper, EEOC General Counsel;
Leslie E. Silverman, EEOC Vice Chair; Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court
Associate Justice, and Naomi C. Earp, EEOC Chair

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11-14-06

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, a former Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), on Monday formally swore in EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp, Vice Chair Leslie E. Silverman, and General

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EEOC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON NOVEMBER 16

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-14-05

Commission to Address Operations in Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Revisions to EEO-1 Report

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, November 16, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission’s deliberations. During the meeting, the following matters

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EEOC TO REOPEN ITS NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-14-02

Office Previously Destroyed in September 11 Terrorist Attacks

NEW YORK - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it will hold the grand reopening and dedication of its New York District Office, which was destroyed in the September 11 terror attacks, this Friday, November 15, 2002, at 10:00 a.m., at its new headquarters at 33 Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan.

"This event is

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EEOC AND NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL PRACTICE REACH $35,000 SETTLEMENT IN POST-9/11 BACKLASH DISCRIMINATION CLAIM

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-13-02

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a voluntary pre-litigation settlement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 of an employment discrimination claim related to the tragic events of September 11. The settlement was reached between the EEOC and a Wilmington, N.C.-based medical practice that treats patients with kidney disease and provides dialysis treatments.

According to the EEOC

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL AND EEOC STRENGTHEN TIES IN FIGHT AGAINST EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   Ellen Vargyas, November 12, 1997                             EEOC Legal Counsel                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TTY: (202) 663-4494                                                Jim Haney, NAAG                                               (608) 266-1221 

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11-12-97

WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance federal-state communication, cooperation, and coordination in the enforcement

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GOLD’N PLUMP AND THE WORK CONNECTION SETTLE SUITS BY EEOC FOR RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-12-08

Prayer Breaks Sought by Muslim Employees to be Instituted; Total of $365,000 to be Paid in Two Cases

MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a federal district court in St. Paul, Minn., recently approved consent decrees that settle two religious discrimination lawsuits against a leading St. Cloud, Minn.-based chicken processor, Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc., and an employment agency, The Work

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LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY TO PAY NEARLY $1 MILLION FOR RETALIATORY DISCHARGE, JURY RULE IN EEOC SUIT

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-10-08

Federal Agency Says Prep School Fired Employee for Protesting Unequal Pay for Women

CLEVELAND – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a jury here has returned a unanimous verdict against Lake Ridge Academy finding that an employee who voiced concern about unequal pay for women was unlawfully fired in retaliation.

The jury reached its unanimous verdict in the EEOC lawsuit after hearing

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UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX TO PAY $1,875,000 FOR RELIGIOUS BIAS AGAINST NON-MORMONS

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-10-08

EEOC Settles Suit on Behalf of Class of Enrollment Counselors in Online Division

PHOENIX – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Federal District Court Judge Mary H. Murguia has entered a consent decree for nearly $2 million and significant remedial relief to resolve a class religious discrimination lawsuit against the University of Phoenix, Inc., and its parent corporation, Apollo Group, Inc.

Apollo

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TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SELECTED BY EEOC AS FIRST LABOR ECONOMIST FELLOW

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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11-10-04

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EEOC Chair Dominguez and Prof. Dr. Jingyo Suh

New Program Part of White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

WASHINGTON - Dr. Jingyo Suh, Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Information Science, at Tuskegee University in Alabama, has been selected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for its first-ever Labor Economist Fellowship Program, part of the

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