EEOC, JPMorgan Enter $1.45 Million Pact Settling Charges of Sex Bias at Ohio Facility

JPMorgan Chase Bank has agreed to pay a class of female mortgage bankers who formerly worked at the company’s Columbus, Ohio, facility $1.45 million to resolve the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s allegations of sex discrimination, including a sexually hostile work environment, the EEOC announced Feb. 3 (EEOC v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Under a consent decree signed Jan. 31 by Judge Gregory L. Frost of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the bank also agreed to revamp its call data retention procedures to allow analysis of sales calls to ensure assignments are equitably ...