The City and County of San Francisco has reached a $150,000 settlement with a transgender police sergeant in his workplace harassment case.
After Sergeant Flint Paul received gender-affirming surgery in 2006, he was referred to with female pronouns and colleagues called him by his former name, including on the police department radio, he said.
Now, the city has settled with Paul $50,000 of the money will go toward legal fees according to court documents, and will also attempt to redress systemic transphobia. Both the San Francisco Police Commission and the Board of Supervisors have approved the settlement. As part of the settlement, the San Francisco Police Department will adopt explicit prohibitions against misgendering and other robust protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming police officers, a joint news release from Impact Fund and Legal Aid at Work issued December 22 states. The city will also conduct training on investigating workplace complaints filed by
The national food distributor reportedly systematically refused to hire women for operative positions at its broadline facilities.
Dec 21st, 2020
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
BALTIMORE – Performance Food Group, Inc. (PFG), a national marketer and distributor of national and proprietary-branded food and food-related products, will pay $5,075,000 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal nationwide sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
According to the EEOC s lawsuit, since at least 2004, PFG has engaged in an ongoing pattern or practice of failing to hire a class of female applicants for operative positions at its Broadline facilities. The EEOC also charged that PFG failed to promote a qualified female employee into the position of nighttime warehouse training supervisor at its Carroll County Foods facility in Maryland based on her sex.