BALTIMORE, Md. -- One of the nation's premier transportation companies engaged in unlawful sex discrimination when it refused to provide a female employee with training necessary to obtain a promotion to a yardmaster position, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today (Oct. 3).
The railroad removed Kathryn Class from yardmaster training and replaced her with a less qualified male employee, the EEOC said in its lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-02566-RDB), filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
The company claims it removed her from the training class based on its policy prohibiting individuals from directly or indirectly supervising, or being supervised by, a relative.
The EEOC charged this reason was but a ruse for sex discrimination because, despite this policy, the railroad has employed male employees who were supervised by a relative, or who supervised a relative.
(The preceding report appeared on the Web site www.tradingmarkets.com on October 3, 2009. )
