FCC, Employee Remain in Hostile Work Environment Claim Settlement Talks
Staffer Sharon Stewart and the FCC continue settlement discussions on her hostile work environment lawsuit (see 1803260002) though they haven't reached a pact, the sides said in a docket 15-57 status report (in Pacer) filed Monday with U.S. District Court…
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in Washington. A federal judge handling an unrelated discrimination complaint brought last year by a now-retired FCC employee gave that plaintiff, Alexander Chan, leave to file oppositions to the agency's motion to dismiss that claim. In his docket 17-921 oppositions (see here and here both in Pacer) filed last week in the court, Chan said that under the Civil Rights Act, he doesn't need to exhaust administrative remedies and thus it's irrelevant he didn't first file a formal complaint. Judge Timothy Kelly in March granted the commission's motion to dismiss, citing Chan not responding to the motion but declined to dismiss the claim with prejudice as the agency had sought.