EEOC Issues Probable Cause Determination Against New York City To The Tune Of $246 million

On April 1, 2015 the EEOC’s New York District Office issued a Determination finding probable cause to believe that the City of New York’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (“DCAS”) violated Title VII and the Equal Pay Act based on its “pattern of wage suppression and subjective promotion based on…sex, race, and national origin.” In the accompanying conciliation agreement proposal, the EEOC demanded numerous forms of programmatic relief from DCAS (e.g., EEOC monitoring, notice postings, etc.) as well as back pay, future pay, compensatory damages and legal fees and costs totaling over $246 million. For any employer, the EEOC’s position is one that ought to be heeded for “lessons learned….”

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