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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 12, 2021

Lexus of Cool Springs will pay $60,000 to settle a 2018 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sex discrimination lawsuit, the Nashville Post reports. According to an EEOC news release, the dealership agreed to resolve the suit, which alleged it treated a female service consultant different than her male co-workers, and then fired her because of her sex. In addition to the monetary payout, the two-year consent decree entered by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger requires the dealership to permit female employees to use available leave in circumstances where it permits similarly situated male employees to do so, and conduct anti-discrimination training for employees.