EEOC Avoids Disclosure of Talks With Staffing Firm (Correct)

Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. is barred by federal job bias law from obtaining from a staffing firm it used on a Tennessee project things that were “said or done” when the staffer negotiated a settlement with the EEOC, a Nashville federal court ruled.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act expressly prohibits the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, its officers, and its employees from making such information public, the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said. The issue arose in a race discrimination lawsuit the agency brought against Whiting-Turner after separate conciliation talks between it and the EEOC ...