Feds announce agreement on sexual harassment lawsuit at NC A&T
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GREENSBORO, NC - The Department of Justice said Monday in a case from North Carolina A & T State University, the school to revise its policy on sexual harassment. The court has yet to approve the agreement, including the University of North Carolina system, the Department of Justice, said in a press release. The agreement covers the former campus police dispatcher Tasha Murray and Mattie Smith. The Department of Justice has submitted a legal process on their behalf, in August 2007, the university complain that they are not acting under which women complained that a supervisor of sexual harassment of men. That appeal was dismissed by the US District Court, Greensboro. Under the agreement, the University to pay $ 29000 $ 26000 Murray and Smith as damages. In addition, the division said NC A & T must be: mandatory training regarding Title VII, prohibitions against sex discrimination and sexual harassment, implement and disseminate further revised policy anti-bullying, to keep records, no signs Negative for employment and Murray Smith, and supervised by the federal government. “This consent decree sends the important message that employees from sexual harassment in public universities will not be tolerated and that public employers must have mechanisms to prevent and correct sexual harassment in a timely and efficient fashion,” Grace Chung said Becker, the assistant Attorney General Federal Justice Division for the Civil Rights Division. Court, and submitted Murray said a complaint of discrimination in the Federal Constitution-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in September 2005, Smith a complaint in January 2006. Mable spokesman Scott School not comment on whether an immediate end Monday, which stipulates that schools are not usually comment on personnel matters. She refused to comment whether the complaint was filed, since it is in the past year in connection with litigation pending. |