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Show DAILY Thursday, May 24, 2007 Lawsuit Continued from A J "We won the majority of the issues on summary judgment, and we're pleased to pay a nuisance value to avoid trial, and clearly, no class, no discrimina- tion or harassment was ever proven," said Littlebrant, Body Firm's chief operating officer. Liender initially filed the charge with the EEOC, alleging the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on a person's race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Sally Shanley, supervisory trial attorney with the EEOC, Rally Continued from A I North in Lehi. "I honestly believe the people who have their homes destroyed are the fortunate ones. It is the people who are going to have to live alongside this monstrous freeway that are affected." He and Lehi officials encouraged those gathered to sign petitions against the road and fill out individual comment cards stating their concerns. The petitions and comment cards will be given not only to UDOT but to state legislators and Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., Klock said. "We are going to make sure our voices are heard and we are being taken seriously," he said. "We are not going to allow this to happen." Councilman Mark Johnson told residents the freeway connector would seriously degrade their property values and that now was the time to fight to keep that from hap- said the agency was told littlebrant made comments about Liender's dress and allegedly called her "a little girL" Some female employees, the EEOC suit said, were allegedly called "hot babes" or "superhot chicks" and told to "show more cleavage" to make more sales. Other derogatory comments were also alleged. Liender received half of the $50,000 settlement in attorneys' fees and also reached a private settlement with Body the judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to support it. That's why there's no back pay for Liender." Allen, however, received $25,000 in back pay and damages for emotional distress. "We were told Littlebrant made comments to her like 'Who would buy a gym membership from someone who is pregnant? " Shanley said. "After she talked to a manager about her pregnancy, that's when she was put on a task force doing project work at a Firm, Shanley said. much lower rate of pay. She re"She also filed a retaliation and constructive discharge signed under those conditions." But Littlebrant disputed the claim because those statements were very offensive to her, allegations. "If all these things were all and she resigned under those conditions," she said. "But true, then why did they settle opinion and don't drop this, and don't let your neighbors drop it." Mayor Howard Johnson was applauded when he said the proposed road would not solve traffic problems. "Frankly, a freeway at 2100 North that is 320 feet wide tying into another freeway that is a parking lot, and doing that in the middle of our town where we have all these concerns, is just not acceptable," he said. UDOT should move the road to Point of the Mountain, as both the city and COST have proposed, and should immediately begin planning a highway through Cedar Valley to he said. reduce traffic on That would allow interstate traffic, especially long-hatrucks, to avoid Utah County, greatly reducing congestion. Councilman James Dixon said it would be better to spend more to build the road elsewhere and reduce the impact effects on Lehi. The long-terof the road to Lehi will cost the city much more in the long run. pening. HERALD Speaking from the audience, residents said property values had already been affected. They also voiced concerns about knowing when to begin selling their homes should the state decide to build the road anyway, whether county officials were aiding the city's fight against the road, and whether it was too late to change UDOT's mind. k Councilman Stephen said if residents will support the city's solution to UDOT's proposal "we can save our community." UDOT officials have said that 2100 North has been chosen as the state's preferred route for the freeway connector because it will force the removal of the fewest homes and businesses through eminent Johnson said Lehi had domain, cost the least, and have the smallest environmenspent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars working tal impact. with UDOT to come up with a The route will not be final master transportation plan that until it is approved by the Fedincluded building a boulevard eral Highway Administration, which is expected to issue a along 2100 North, a plan the decision in 2008. city and COST still support, The proposed Mountain only to find out weeks after View Corridor freeway would the plan was finalized that UDOT had decided a larger connect Interstate 80 in Salt Lake County to Interstate 15 in freeway connector should be built. Utah County. "This new proposal on 2100 Caleb Warnock can be North did catch us by sur3 or prise," he said. "We believe we reached at have a better plan. Voice your cwarnockheraldextra.com. Hol-broo- A3 for a paltry sum, and not go to trial?" he said. "We have several pregnant women working in our organization every day as salespeople and always will." The EEOC has seen a 33 percent increase in pregnancy discrimination charges over the past 10 years, said Mary Jo CNeillhe EEOC's regional attorney for the Phoenix District, in a statement Wednesday. "We hope this settlement will remind employers about the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and deter future instances of this form of sex discrimina- tion," she said. The EEOC said the settlement required Body Firm's management and employees to undergo comprehensive train Iraq border. In the search for U.S. soldiers ambushed and captured May 12, thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces have trudged in temperatures above 110 degrees through desert and lush farmland, sometimes wading in sewage-polftte- d irrigation ditches. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said the remains, later identified as those of Anzack, were recovered by Iraqi police. Witnesses said the police using civilian boats searched for other bodies on the river in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, and U.S. troops intensified their presence on a nearby bridge as helicopters flew overhead, witnesses said. Hassan 32, said he saw the body with head wounds and whip marks on its back floating on the river Wednesday morning. He and others then alerted police. Iranian border 60 miles east of Baghdad. The attacker walked into the packed cafe and blew himself up. killing 22 people and wounding 13, police said. The cafe in the mixed Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish city was popular with police officers but none was there at the time, police said. A man in his 30s wearing a heavy jacket despite the heat was seen walking into the cafe seconds before the blast, according to police. In the second suicide assault, a bomber blew himself up in the house of two brothers who were supporting a Sunni alliance in Anbar province, opposed to killing 10 people, including the men, their wives and children, police Lt. Col. Jabar Rasheed Nayef said. The attacker, a neighbor, broke into the house of the two men, Sheik Mohammed Ali and police Lt. Col. Abed Ali, and detonated his bomb belt late Tuesday in Albo Obaid, about 60 miles west of Baghdad. The targeted men were part of the Anbar Salvation Council, a group of Sunni tribal leaders backing the government's fight against In Washington. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said U.S. and Iraqi officials were planning to increase again the number of Iraqi security forces to help quell violence in the "They told us, 'We're sorry to inform you the body we Continued from A 1 "They told us, 'We're sorry to inform you the body we found has been identified as Joe,' " said the soldier's aunt, Debbie Anzack. "I'm in disbelief." Anzack, 20, vanished along with the two others after their combat team was ambushed May 12 about 20 miles outside of Baghdad. Five others, including an Iraqi, were killed in the ambush, subsequently claimed by American forces also disclosed nine more deaths Wednesday, raising to 20 the number of U.S. troops killed in four days. The spike in American deaths and the discovery of the bodies come at a difficult moment for Washington, where the Bush administration and Congress are struggling to agree on funding for the unpopular war. The search for the captured soldiers has also taken thousands of troops out of the pool of forces for the Baghdad security crackdown. Nationwide at least 104 people were killed in sectarian violence or found dead Wednesday, including 32 who perished in suicide bombings. One bombing took place 60 miles west of the capital, the other in a city to the east near the Iranian laws, workplace remains a serious ing on review and revise its workproblem. Employers must understand that sexual harassplace discrimination policies and procedures, and post infor- ment can take many different mation about worker rights. forms," she said. But Mary Anne Wood, Body "Physical assaults like that Firm's attorney, disputed those depicted in the movie 'North terms, saying the only thing Country' are one of the most the company was required egregious forms of workplace sex harassment. But subtler, to do was to provide seemingly more nuanced betraining once in havior can and often does also the next year. "We didn't agree to revise create a hostile work environour policies," Wood said. "Usu- ment." "North Country" chronicles ally, when the EEOC settles a sexual harassment lawsuit cases like these, there must be a consent decree. Because filed in 1998 against Eveleth Tacorute Co. on behalf of Lois we didn't agree we had done anything wrong, there was no Jenson and other female mine consent decree." workers subjected to threats, insults, inappropriate touching Shanley disagreed. and physical intimidation. "Sexual harassment in the found has been identified as Joe.' I'm in disbelief. " Debbie Anzack aunt of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. of Torrance, Calif. The military has warned that U.S. casualties were likely to increase as troops made more frequent patrols during the U.S.-le- d security crackdown in Baghdad, now in its fourth month. The other missing soldiers are Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass.; and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Water-ford- , Mich. At Jimenez's father's home in Lawrence, a former mill city north of Boston, a yellow ribbon also was tied on the front door. Ramon Jimenez, who speaks Spanish, said through a translator in a cell phone conversation that he has been bouyed by the support of friends and family. "The hope is very high that God is going to give Alex back to him," said Wendy Luzon, a family friend who translated the conversation and has been serving as a spokeswoman for the family. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri meanwhile, announced he was ready to fill six Cabinet seats vacated by politicians loyal to radical Shiite in a mass resignacleric Muqtada tion Jast month. who went into hiding in Iran at the start of the Baghdad security crackdown, ordered his ministers to quit country. The review was undertaken as President Bush's new military political team in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker assessed strategy for the d war. "Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have been working on the specific tactics" needed for the strategy President Bush announced in January a troop buildup to calm Baghdad so Iraqis can make political and economic progress, Johndroe said. About 337,000 Iraqi police and soldiers had been trained and equipped as of May 9, according to Defense Department statistics. Officials hope to have the currently planned 365,000 in place by the end of the year. Brig. Gen. Michael Jones, depaffairs uty director for political-militarin the Middle East for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers Tuesday. r, the government over to call for a timetable for refusal U.S. withdraw- al. The deaths of the seven soldiers and two Marines in a series of attacks Monday and Tuesday brought the American death toll for the month to at least 80. 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