CDC Class Action EEO Complaint Hompage
This page presents the latest information
on the class action discrimination complaint against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office
of Personnel Management filed by Sarah Diamond as the agent of a class of 68 female employees of the CDC and ASTDR
in the administrative series who were notified in 1995 that their positions were to be downgraded as a result of
the joint CDC-OPM classification review.
The class's complaint against the Office of Personnel Management has finally been settled. The final settlement agreement was signed on June 4, 5 and 6th and by letters dated June 30, 1998, Administrative Judge Philip S. Davi advised both OPM and CDC that he was closing his file on the matter. The appeals of compensatory damages determinations remain pending before Judge Davi, and there are some lingering issues of compliance with the CDC settlement agreement.
The Complaint against CDC was settled effective November 7, 1997, when the settlement agreement with CDC took effect. Class members will have thirty days from the date formally notice of the settlement agreement is officially served on them by CDC (this hasn't happened) yet to raise formal objections to the agreement. Class members have until January 15, 1997 to submit:
 | claims for restoration of leave taken between August 1, 1995 and November 7, 1997;
| claims for reimbursement of out of pocket medical expenses incurred between August 1,
1995 and November 7, 1997; and
| claims for additional compensatory
damages beyond the $8500 to be given each class member.
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to the EEO Office of the CDC. Class counsel, Adam J. Conti, LLC, will assist class members in submitting these claims. Class members should submit materials in support of their claims to class counsel by January 9, 1998. Forms, questionnaires, model affidavits and information to assist class members in the preparation of their submissions are available here.
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