EEOC, Auto Dealer Settle for $1.5 Million Suit Claiming Sex Discrimination, Age Bias

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a Colorado auto dealer have reached a $1.5 million settlement of an EEOC suit claiming that the company subjected female employees to sex discrimination and sexual harassment and fired older male employees because of their age, EEOC announced Jan. 7 (EEOC v. Arapahoe Motors Inc. d/b/a Ralph Schomp Auto.).

Under a two-year consent decree approved Jan. 6 by Judge Robert E. Blackburn of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Ralph Schomp Automotive, based in Littleton, Colo., will distribute the settlement proceeds among five female former employees and five male ...