Case: EEOC v. VENTURA FOODS LLC

0:05-cv-00663 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 31, 2005

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2008

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Case Summary

In March 2005, the Minneapolis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Ventura Foods, LLC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota alleging violatoin of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, discrimination on the basis of age in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act. Specifically, the complaint alleges the defendant instituted and maintained a policy contained in its Severance Agreement and General Release requiring terminated employees to waive their rights to file discrimination charges with the EEOC in exchange for severance payment, which is retaliatory under Title VII and the ADEA. After some discovery and filing of summary judgment motions by both parties, the parties settled in September 2006 through a consent decree.The two-year decree, containing a non-retaliation clause, requires the defendant to: no longer contractually require employees or former employees to agree not file charges with the EEOC, pay employees who refused to sign the agreement the enhanced severance amount, inform former employees of the severance of the contract clause, waive the limitations period for filing discrimination charges with the EEOC, and permit monitoring by the EEOC. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

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Daisy Manning (9/28/2007)

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For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4713517/parties/equal-employment-opportunity-commission-v-ventura-foods-llc/

Judge(s)

Kyle, Richard House (Minnesota)

Judge(s)

Kyle, Richard House (Minnesota)

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Documents in the Clearinghouse

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0:05-cv-00663	Docket (PACER) EEOC v. Ventura Foods LLC	Sept. 1, 2006	Sept. 1, 2006 Docket
1 0:05-cv-00663	Complaint EEOC v. Ventura Foods LLC	March 31, 2005	March 31, 2005 Complaint
52 0:05-cv-00663	Consent Decree EEOC v. Ventura Foods LLC	Sept. 1, 2006	Sept. 1, 2006 Settlement Agreement

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Resources

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Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms Carly Knight, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev	Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace, finding that lit…	March 2022	April 1, 2022 https://cris.tau.ac.il/...