Employer Retaliation Against Human Resources Director

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Glunt Industries, Inc. and Merit Capital Partners IV, LLC when they allegedly engaged in sex discrimination against women by failing to hire them for production jobs and discriminated against their former human resources director both for her role in hiring women and because she opposed sex discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that after some women were hired for production jobs during the HR director’s tenure, the companies subjected them to discriminatory treatment by firing someone of the female production workers. This conduct would violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination because of sex and retaliation for complaining about it. See EEOC v. Glunt Industries, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-01687-CAB (N.D. Ohio).