The IWPR Report On Combating Alleged Workplace Discrimination

Designed to coincide with the first National Equal Pay Day, on April 12, 2011, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research ("IWPR") issued a 162 page report analyzing 502 race and sex discrimination class action settlements between 2000 and 2008. The IWPR Report analyzes the injunctive relief provisions contained in those class action settlements. Entitled Ending Sex and Race Discrimination in the Workplace: Legal Interventions that Push the Envelope, the research underlying the Report involved both class settlements between private litigants and consent decrees negotiated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice in pattern or practice cases.  The Report also analyzes four industries - police and fire departments, agri-business and food processing, aerospace manufacturing, and financial services - to show how certain consent decrees and settlements were negotiated and implemented. 

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