Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. First Midwest Bank, N.A.

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• concluding that the EEOC did not engage in a good faith effort to conciliate where, inter alia, the EEOC expected the employer to submit a proposal without any information regarding the class of women against whom the employer allegedly discriminated
• finding the EEOC failed to conciliate in good faith where the EEOC failed to provide the employer with additional information about the class, quadrupled its monetary demand without explanation, and imposed arbitrary deadlines on the employer
• “If a district court finds improper conciliation efforts were made, the appropriate remedy is not dismissal, but a stay of the proceedings so that conciliation between the parties may take place.”
• “First Midwest accepted the EEOC’s offer to meet, but could only schedule a meeting in the first few days of October. Within four days, the EEOC determined conciliation efforts had failed.”
• the EEOC failed to conciliate in good faith, where it quadrupled money damages request, and failed to provide the employer with any information regarding the class of female employees, thus forcing the employer to attempt to conciliate in an “evidentiary vacuum.”
• “Additionally, the EEOC provides no explanation for why September was the cutoff date for conciliation negotiations. It appears to be an arbitrary date with no particular meaning and, under the circumstances, there is no reason conciliation negotiations could not have continued into October.”

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