EEOC Settles Sex Bias Suit Against Tyndall Engineering and Design
Company Fired Female Worker Based on Gender, Federal Agency Says
PRESS RELEASE
4-23-09
RALEIGH, N.C. – A Garner, N.C.-based engineering and design company will pay $10,250 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Tyndall Engineering and Design, P.A. disciplined workers in a discriminatory fashion based on gender when it fired a female employee at its Raleigh facility after she returned from a leave of absence, while not firing men in similar situations.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Tyndall fired Jaime Senter when she did not provide medical documentation for her leave of absence. However, Tyndall previously allowed a similarly situated male employee to take a leave of absence without providing any medical documentation, and he was not fired. Continue reading
