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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Enters Chevron Job Bias Suit.(Originated from Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1995 by Guth, Lesley
SAN RAMON, Calif.--May 9--The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has given weight to a discrimination lawsuit against Chevron Chemical Co. and Monsanto Co. by intervening in the case as a plaintiff.
The lawsuit, filed in June in Federal District Court in St. Louis, alleges the two companies violated age, race and disability discrimination laws in terminating 43 employees who worked in San Ramon.
The employees were among 100 who were laid off after Chevron Chemical Co. sold its Ortho lawn-and-garden business to St. Louis-based Monsanto in May 1993.
A week ago, a federal judge approved an EEOC motion to intervene in the case.
"The EEOC lends considerable weight in these cases," said attorney Kathryn Ross Dickson of Dickson & Ross in...
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