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CHICAGO (AP) — Libby-Owens-
Ford Co. will pay up to f 10 million
for lost wages and make 342 jobs
available to women over a five-year
period under the settlement of a sex
discrimination lawsuit with the gov
ernment, attorneys said Thursday.
“This settlement is historic for its
cooperative disposition of a major
lawsuit,” Charles A. Shanor, general
counsel of the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, said at a
news conference announcing the
agreement with the Ohio-based glass
manufacturer.
The settlement still must be ap
proved by a federal judge.
The EEOC filed the lawsuit in
1978 after receiving a complaint
from a woman who said she had
been denied a job at the company’s
Ottawa, Ill., plant because she didn’t
meet minimum height and weight
requirements, he said.
Under a 16-year-old policy, the
company required factory employ
ees to be at least 5 feet, 4 inches tall
and weigh at least 110 pounds.
About 1,700 women were refused
work at eight Libby-Owens-Ford
plants, and probably three times that
many refrained from applying be
cause they knew the company’s pol
icy, said Margaret L. Herbert, an
EEOC attorney who worked on the
case.
All would be eligible to benefit un
der the proposed settlement, to be
advertised in five states where the
company operates plants and in
three where it once did, said EEOC
attorney John P. Rowe.
Byron Quandt, a company
spokesman, said, “LOF’s position is
that its hiring requirements were
job-related and necessary for the
safe and efficient operation of its
plants.
“We felt at the time that . . . cer
tain jobs in glass manufacturing and
fabricating require a certain level of
reach, strength and stamina in order
to be safely performed.
“The key thing was safety.”
Quandt added that the height-
weight requirement was used by the
company under terms of a 1971 con
sent decree reached in federal court
in Toledo to set hiring guidelines.
Under its new agreement with
EEOC, “the EOF has denied any lia
bility for any violation of Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act but has agreed
to the terms of the settlement to
avoid the cost of any further time-
consuming litigation,” he said.
Title VII prohibits employment
discrimination based on race, color,
religion, sex or national origin.
Under terms of the settlement,
outreach programs will be estab
lished to try to locate women ex
cluded from jobs because of the
company’s height and weight re
quirements, EEOC attorneys said.
That will include five areas where
the company runs plants: Toledo,
Ohio; Ottawa, Ill.; Sherman, Texas;
Mason City, Iowa; and Lathrop,
Calif. Also included will be areas in
which it operated plants that since
have closed: Brackenridge, Pa.;
Charleston, W.V.; and Clinton, N.C.
Other U.S. plants and plants in
Canada and Mexico are not covered
by the settlement, Herbert said.
The company has 8,300 employ
ees in North America.
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