05/05/2009
White Plains-based Marjam Supply, a building supply company, has agreed to pay $495,000 to settle the complaints of five black employees. The five filed charges with the EEOC, charging the supervisors repeatedly used racial slurs, talked about joining the Ku Klux Klan and threatened to burn crosses on the workers’ lawns.
05/05/2009
When the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, whose decisions cover Illinois, began acknowledging the “cat’s paw” theory of discrimination, it appeared to open employers to greater liability.