Murphy Ford, Inc. to Pay $244,000 for Sex Harassment and Retaliation Against Female Workers

Holding:

Murphy Ford Inc., doing business as Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc., a car dealership located in Chester, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $244,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). The seven-year consent decree settling the suit provided that the company pay $206,500 to one of the female workers, Cynthia Bell. The consent decree included a provision that Murphy Ford train managers and supervisors regarding Title VII’s legal requirements annually for the seven-year duration of the consent decree.

Detailed Summary:

This suit is an action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 seeking to correct unlawful employment practices that discriminated on the basis of gender and race, and to provide appropriate relief to Bell, and a class of similarly situated female employees (the “class”), who were adversely affected by such practices.

In its complaint, the EEOC alleged that during their employment, Bell and the class of female employees were subjected to sex based harassment through constant sexually inappropriate and offensive comments, touching, and indecent conduct which created a…

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