FCC, Staffer Continue Settlement Talks Over Hostile Work Environment Suit
FCC employee Sharon Stewart and the agency continue settlement discussions on her hostile work environment lawsuit (see 1803050003), though they haven't reached an agreement to settle, said a docket 15-57 report (in Pacer) filed Friday with U.S. District Court in…
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Washington. The sides were granted additional time to continue settlement talks, with another joint status report due April 23, said a court minute order. An unrelated discrimination complaint brought last year in the same District Court by a now-retired FCC employee, Alexander Chan (see 1709220047), was dismissed earlier this month. In that docket 17-921 order, Judge Timothy Kelly of Washington said Chan didn't respond to two court orders about an FCC motion to dismiss. But the court didn't dismiss Chan's claim with prejudice, as the FCC sought, saying the agency didn't give a rationale for going that far.