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Abstract: Monitors Say Mitsubishi in Compliance with EEOC Consent Decree
September 6, 2000. Chicago. The monitors who were appointed by District Judge Joe Billy McDade in the Consent Decree he entered, issued a report on Mitsubishi Motors' compliance. The Decree required Mitsubishi to pay $34 million to the victims of sexual harassment, enjoined the company from permitting sexual harassment or retaliating against women who complain, and required the company to implement procedures to deal effectively with any harassment which arose in the future.
EEOC Chairwoman Ida L. Castro said: "While this report shows that Mitsubishi has made substantial progress in ridding pervasive sexual harassment from its workplace, the Commission will remain vigilant in monitoring its employment practices in accordance with the landmark settlement of two years ago."
The monitors, who submitted their second annual report under the Decree, are Nancy B. Kreiter, Research Director of Women Employed in Chicago; George F. Galland, Jr., an attorney in the Chicago law firm of Miner, Barnhill and Galland; and Joyce E. Tucker, formerly a Commissioner of EEOC and now a member of the consulting firm of Tucker, Spearman and Associates of Alexandria, Virginia.
The report says:
"We have been provided extensive documentation by the company, including, among many other subjects, copies of complaints of sexual and sex-based harassment and related retaliation and the company's reports of the investigations into and follow-up on those complaints. "
"Despite the fact that we believe that very little sexual harassment is occurring at the plant, ... as a result of increased responsibilities and the increased scope of [line supervisors'] duties, we have some concern . . . The company cannot let down its guard in the control of harassment, which requires vigilance. . ."
For complete text of EEOC's press release: Monitors Say Mitsubishi in Compliance with EEOC Consent Decree; Sexual Harassment 'firmly under control' at U. S. Plant
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