Ohio Machining Company to Pay $2M to Settle Sex Discrimination Case

Glunt Industries, Inc., a Warren, Ohio machining company which operates four large-scale fabrication plants, will pay $2 million and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Glunt engaged in sex discrimination when the company denied production jobs to a class of women since at least 2018. In addition to systemically not hiring women, the EEOC alleged that Glunt failed to provide women’s restrooms on the plant floor in any of its plants.

Glunt also discriminated against its human resources director and retaliated against her for her role in hiring two women for project manager positions, leading to her separation. Glunt then fired the women and hired men to fill their positions, according to the lawsuit.

Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (EEOC v. Glunt Industries, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:24-cv-01687) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.

Under the two-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit, Glunt will pay $2 million in monetary relief to be distributed by the EEOC to Glunt’s former HR director, the two women who were discharged from project manager positions, and a class of women who applied for production positions at Glunt and were not hired.

Pursuant to the consent decree, Glunt will also cooperate in efforts to provide equal employment opportunities for specific female applicants who applied for a production position at Glunt and were not hired. The consent decree also prohibits Glunt from discriminating based on sex, and it provides for training, record-keeping, monitoring, and reporting.

Source: EEOC

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