2015-07 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 28 - UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION

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SECTION 5-11. Upon finding a human rights violation, the Commission may direct and order the respondent to: 1) cease and desist from any violation of this Chapter; 2) pay actual damages, as reasonably determined by the Commission and supported by the evidence,for injury or loss suffered by the complainant; 3) hire, reinstate or upgrade the complainant with or without back-pay or provide such fringe benefits as the complainant may have been denied; 4) Admit or restore the complainant to labor organization membership, to a guidance program, apprenticeship training program, on the job training program, or other occupational training or retraining program; 5) Admit the complainant to a public accommodation; 6) Extend to the complainant the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of the respondent; 7) Pay to the complainant all or a portion of the costs of maintaining the action, including reasonable attorney fees and expert witness fees incurred in maintaining this action before the Commission and in any judicial review and judicial enforcement proceedings; (Amended, Ordinance 2014-32,July 7,2014) 8) Report as to the manner of compliance; 9) Post notices in a conspicuous place which the Commission may publish or cause to be published setting forth requirements for compliance with this Chapter or other relevant information which the Commission determines necessary to explain this Chapter; 10) Take such action as may be necessary to make the individual complainant whole, including, but not limited to, awards of interest on the complainant's actual damages and bark-pay from the date of the human rights violation; and, 11) In the case of a violation of Article 8 of this Chapter, pay to the City of Decatur a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for the first such offense, and not more than One Thousand