Ephraim McDowell Health, Inc. (EMH), headquartered in Danville, Kentucky, violated federal law by denying a female employee a promotion because of her sex and retaliated against her after she filed a discrimination charge, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee was told by EMH’s CEO that she would not be selected for an administrator position at its Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, Kentucky because of her sex, based on the CEO’s belief that men work better with men and that it was best to have a male in that position. Ultimately, a male employee who did not meet the existing education requirements was promoted to the administrator position. The female employee, who met all qualifications for the administrator position, including the educational requirements, was instead appointed to a lower-paying position that reported to the newly promoted male. The EEOC further charged that after the female employee filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC, EMH retaliated against her and ultimately fired her.
