Sex Bias Lawsuit

In an April 23, 2009 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (”EEOC”) Press Release, the federal agency announced that a North Carolina based engineering and design company will pay $10,250 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit in which EEOC attorneys alleged that the company disciplined workers in a discriminatory manner based on gender when it fired a female employee after she returned from a leave of absence.  See, http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-23-09.html .  According to the EEOC Press Release, the lawsuit alleged that the company fired the female employee when she did not provide medical documentation for her leave of absence but had previously allowed a similarly situated male employee to take a leave of absence without providing any medical documentation and he was not fired. 

Sex discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  For further information about the EEOC, see www.eeoc.gov .