EEOC Suit Against Home Now Settled
Posted on: Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 18:00 CST
By Ron Brown, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.
Mar. 17--A federal discrimination case ended Wednesday with the Odd Fellows Home of Virginia paying its former administrator $70,000 and agreeing to give all full-time employees and board members court-ordered workplace sensitivity training.
According to a consent decree filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg, neither Odd Fellows nor EEOC discounted the merits of their respective cases.
In September 2004, EEOC filed suit against the home, saying it fired its administrator in an unlawful retaliatory move.
According to the settlement decree, Odd Fellows will also provide its former administrator, Shelby Staples with a non-committal letter of reference.
"The Odd Fellows Home of Virginia employed Shelby Staples as the Administrator for the home from March 25, 2000 to April 17, 2004," the letter says in its entirety.
Odd Fellows and its representatives were also enjoined from engaging in reprisals or retaliation against Staples.
Within 45 days after the court's decree, the home's managers and other full-time employees, including board members, are ordered to attend at least four hours of intensive training, with a focus on sex discrimination and retaliation.
New employees are ordered to receive similar training within 20 days of employment.
The court must approve the curriculum used in the training.
The home must also report on its implementation of the decree orders to the EEOC every six months until the consent decree expires in three years.
EEOC contended that Staples was dismissed because she had participated in a previous EEOC investigation of sexual discrimination allegations at the home.
Tracy Spicer, a supervisory trial attorney for the EEOC in Baltimore, said the lawsuit was warranted by the egregious nature of repeated violations of the law.
The Odd Fellows Home, located on Elmwood Avenue, is an assisted-living facility for the elderly that has about 40 residents.
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