Press releases and other news from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. http://www.eeoc.gov/ en-us http://backend.userland.com/rss Ruby Tuesday, Inc. will pay $255,000 and furnish important equitable relief to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/11-3-09.html 2009-11-03 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a sex discrimination class action lawsuit for $1,025,000 and far reaching injunctive relief against Lawry's Restaurants, Inc., doing business as Lawry's the Prime Rib, Five Crowns, and Tam O'Shanter Inn (Lawry's), for allegedly failing to hire men into food server positions for decades. Lawry's is a California-based corporation operating restaurants in Las Vegas, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Corona del Mar, Calif. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/11-2-09.html 2009-11-02 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a lawsuit against staffing giant Administaff, Inc. and Conn-X, LLC, which provides cable service in the Baltimore metropolitan area, for engaging in religious discrimination against employees. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/11-2-09a.html 2009-11-02 Long Island-based car dealer Thomas Dodge Subaru, now doing business as Thomas Subaru, will pay $132,250 to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-29-09b.html 2009-10-29 Arkansas-based P.A.M. Transport, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. (PTSI), has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for disability discrimination, the agency announced today. The agency charged the company with unlawfully discharging an employee, who is a Kalamazoo, Mich., resident, after learning he was HIV-positive. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-29-09a.html 2009-10-29 Tim Dahle Imports, doing business as Tim Dahle Nissan of Sandy, Utah, will pay $455,000 and furnish substantial remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-29-09.html 2009-10-29 A Charlotte retirement home will pay $20,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had sued Lawyers Glen Retirement Living Center, LLC on behalf of a former employee who was discriminated against when she became pregnant. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-28-09.html 2009-10-28 A Medina, Ohio manufacturer of fasteners and fastening will pay $245,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-27-09.html 2009-10-27 The EEOC announced today that Chief Judge Michael J. Davis has approved and directed the clerk of court to enter a consent decree resolving an EEOC lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) against Hob-Lob, Limited Partnership, which does business as Hobby Lobby. In the lawsuit, the EEOC contended that Hobby Lobby refused to allow an employee with mobility limitations to perform her job while in a wheelchair. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-26-09.html 2009-10-26 Bridgewater Interiors, LLC has agreed to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Bridgewater Interiors, a joint venture between Johnson Controls and Epsilon LLC of Detroit, produces seating and interior systems for major automakers in North America. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-22-09.html 2009-10-22 California Psychiatric Transitions, Inc. (CPT), a Central Valley mental health rehabilitation center, has agreed to provide $145,000 and take significant remedial measures to settle a federal lawsuit charging that a male supervisor subjected a group of female employees to a pervasive sexually hostile work environment for several years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-21-09.html 2009-10-21 Top officials of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights (DOJ), will jointly hold a town hall listening session to draw public input on new federal regulations and procedures to promote the hiring of people with disabilities. The forum, the second of four in major cities nationwide, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at Liberty Resources, 714 Market Street, Suite 100, Philadelphia, Pa., 19106. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-20-09.html 2009-10-20 Top officials of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights (DOJ), will jointly hold a town hall listening session to draw public input on new federal regulations and procedures to promote the hiring of people with disabilities. The forum, the first of four in major cities nationwide, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26 at the Greater Bay Area Regional Office, 1111 Broadway, 7th floor, Oakland, Calif. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-20-09a.html 2009-10-20 A Charlotte, N.C.-based equipment rental company will pay $64,641 to settle a religious harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just days before the case was scheduled for a jury trial, the agency announced today. The EEOC had sued Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., the nationwide commercial rental company, on behalf of a Muslim worker who was allegedly discriminated against because of his Islamic faith at a company facility in Gaithersburg, Md. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-16-09.html 2009-10-16 Federal Magistrate Judge Aaron E. Goodstein today issued a decision denying the motion of Universal Brixius to dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit against it by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-15-09a.html 2009-10-15 In a legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Bellco Credit Union, for the second time in two years, lost a court motion to dismiss the EEOC's lawsuit charging the company with firing a 61-year-old teller because of her age, the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-15-09.html 2009-10-15 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a pattern or practice discrimination lawsuit against Dominion Correctional Services, LLC and Corrections Corporation of America, both doing business as Crowley County Correctional Facility, for $1.3 million and significant remedial relief on behalf of 21 female former workers who were allegedly subjected to a sex-based hostile work environment and retaliation at an all-male, privately run medium security prison in Olney Springs, Colo. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-13-09.html 2009-10-13 A Rockville, Md., medical transcription company violated federal law when it refused to hire a medical transcriptionist to a full-time job because of its stereotypes about people with multiple sclerosis, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09e.html 2009-10-09 A nationwide building services company providing services to Westfield's Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Md., violated federal law when it fired an employee because he complained about race and sex discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09d.html 2009-10-09 An Atlanta retail chain violated federal law when it fired an employee because of her age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. According to the EEOC's suit, Civ. Ac. # 409-cv-160, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Charming Shoppes, Inc., doing business as Fashion Bug of Rome, also subjected Angela Ray, a co-manager at the Rome, Ga., store, to discriminatory terms and conditions of employment because of her age, including disparate discipline, prior to her termination. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09c.html 2009-10-09 HWCC-Tunica, Inc., doing business as Hollywood Casino Tunica in Robinsonville, Miss., will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09b.html 2009-10-09 A Silver Spring, Md., federal contractor violated federal law when it fired a person with cancer and AIDS because of his illnesses, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09a.html 2009-10-09 A central Indiana self-storage company violated federal law when it subjected its female property managers and associate managers to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-9-09.html 2009-10-09 Playing a key part in an Obama Administration-wide effort to advance opportunities for workers with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold town hall meetings throughout the nation and offer workshops on new federal regulations and hiring procedures. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-7-09.html 2009-10-07 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit against TriCore Reference Laboratories, charging that the Albuquerque, N.M., diagnostic testing facility violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee and then firing her because of her disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-6-09c.html 2009-10-06 A Houston-based delivery company doing business in Arizona violated federal law by subjecting female employees to egregious verbal and sexual harassment and then punishing them for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-6-09b.html 2009-10-06 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it is suing Greystar Holdings, Inc., doing business as Greystar Real Estate Partners and Greystar Properties, charging that the company unlawfully retaliated against an employee for filing a sexual harassment complaint. Greystar Holdings is an investment, development, and property management company that operates in real estate markets across the country including Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-6-09a.html 2009-10-06 Lodging Enterprises LLC of Arizona, which does business as Oak Tree Inn in Yuma, unlawfully permitted a manager to impose his personal religious beliefs on other employees, and failed to accommodate those employees who did not desire to participate, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a religious discrimination lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-6-09.html 2009-10-06 High-Tech Institute, Inc., also known as Anthem College Online, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to a sexually hostile work environment at its Phoenix, Ariz., campus, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it has filed. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-5-09d.html 2009-10-05 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against Phoenix-area property management firms Riverstone Residential, SW, LLC and Realty Management, charging the companies with firing and failing to accommodate an employee because he had a disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-5-09c.html 2009-10-05 Sonic Drive-In of Los Lunas, Ltd., and B&B Consultants, Inc., doing business as Sonic Drive-In in Los Lunas, N.M., violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees (including some teenagers) to sexual harassment, retaliating against the women for complaining about it and forcing many of them to resign, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed on September 29, 2009. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-5-09b.html 2009-10-05 An Eastern Washington winery, La Pianta L.C.C., doing business as Frenchman Hills Vineyard, violated federal law when its vineyard manager sexually harassed a female worker employed at its facility in Othello, Wash., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. This is the federal agency's second case filed this year charging sexual harassment against Pacific Northwest agricultural employers. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-5-09a.html 2009-10-05 Albany, Ore., hazelnut processing factory Cascade Foods, Inc., violated federal law when it fired a female employee after she obtained a restraining order against her co-worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-5-09.html 2009-10-05 Seymour ZX, LLC, operating a Zaxby's restaurant in Seymour, Tenn., violated federal law by firing two employees for protesting sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed September 30, 2009. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-2-09a.html 2009-10-02 A Metairie, La., transportation service violated federal law by creating a sexually hostile work environment for a female employee and then fired her in retaliation for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit recently filed. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-2-09.html 2009-10-02 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has filed an employment discrimination suit against Spartan Plumbing, Inc., a company that provides plumbing services in Tucson, Ariz., and Las Vegas, Nev. In its lawsuit, EEOC v. Spartan Plumbing Inc, (Civil Action No 09-547 TUC-RCC), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the EEOC charges that the employee in this case was subjected to harassment based on his race, Black. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09l.html 2009-10-01 A company that provides services to the disabled illegally discriminated against disabled, hearing-impaired applicants, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09k.html 2009-10-01 The Picture People, Inc., a nationwide chain of photography studios, refused to provide a reasonable accommodation, harassed, and retaliated against a deaf employee by eliminating her work hours, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed earlier this week. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09j.html 2009-10-01 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it has filed suit in federal court here against Tomayo Financial Services, Inc., a mortgage lending organization with four offices in the Chicago area, charging that women employees were sexually harassed and retaliated against when they complained. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09i.html 2009-10-01 An Indianapolis-based construction company unlawfully retaliated against a concrete worker who filed and refused to drop a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC on September 29. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09h.html 2009-10-01 Mount Vernon Holdings, LLC, the company that owns and operates Best Western Hotel-Mt. Vernon in Alexandria, Va., violated federal law by refusing to hire applicants based on their non-Hispanic national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09g.html 2009-10-01 A Western Washington saw and wood planing mill, Mason County Forest Products, violated federal law when a crew manager sexually harassed female employees and fired two women because of their gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. One of the women was terminated also in retaliation for opposing the discrimination, according to the agency. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09f.html 2009-10-01 M&N Equipment, a Casper, Wyo., equipment supplier, unlawfully retaliated against a female employee after she complained that she had been sexually harassed at the company’s Pinedale, Wyo., location, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09e.html 2009-10-01 Hilltown Packing, a Salinas-based agricultural harvester with annual revenues of over $50 million, violated federal law by permitting sexual harassment and retaliation against female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09d.html 2009-10-01 Genesco, Inc., doing business as Journeys, which operates a retail store whose target customers are in the age range of 13-22, violated federal law by subject­ing a class of women to sexual harassment and retaliating against one woman for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed September 29, 2009. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09c.html 2009-10-01 Freeman (also known as the Freeman Companies), a nationwide convention, exhibition and corporate events marketing company, engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful discrimination by refusing to hire a class of black, Hispanic, and male job applicants across the United States, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09b.html 2009-10-01 A Fortune 500 home builder and land developer which identifies itself as the nation’s largest home builder refused to accommodate an employee’s pregnancy-related disability and unlawfully fired her because of it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09a.html 2009-10-01 Clayton Ranch Market, a grocery store in Clayton, N.M., violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing to hire a qualified applicant because he had a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The ADA prohibits employment discrimination based on disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-1-09.html 2009-10-01 Three interrelated companies which provide property management services to apartment complexes in Maryland and Virginia violated federal law when they subjected a class of Hispanic workers to harassment and suspended or fired employees who opposed the illegal practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09s.html 2009-09-30 One of the nation’s premier transportation companies engaged in unlawful sex discrimination when it refused to provide a female employee with training necessary to obtain a pro­motion to a yardmaster position, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09r.html 2009-09-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a class lawsuit against Ruby Tuesday, Inc. under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) on behalf of older job applicants who were denied hire due to ageism. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09q.html 2009-09-30 One of the nation’s premier transportation companies engaged in unlawful sex discrimination when it refused to provide a female employee with training necessary to obtain a pro­motion to a yardmaster position, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09p.html 2009-09-30 CTI Global Solutions Inc., a staffing agency headquartered in Largo, Md., violated federal law when it terminated a group of employees because of their pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09o.html 2009-09-30 Two staffing agencies with headquarters in Georgia, Axiom Staffing Group, Inc., and Axiom Staffing Group of Virginia, Inc., engaged in disability discrimination at their Hagerstown, Md., facility when they refused to hire an applicant because of her back impairment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a lawsuit today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09n.html 2009-09-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a class lawsuit today against Finch Air Conditioning of La Porte, Texas, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. In the suit (Civil Action No. 4:09-cv-03156), the EEOC alleged that certain female employees at this family-owned and operated business were subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the employment discrimination statutes the agency is charged with enforcing. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09m.html 2009-09-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit today against New York City-based janitorial services giant ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM), charging that supervisors at the company discriminated against Latino janitors working at several commercial buildings in downtown San Francisco, and retaliated against some of these employees after they filed charges with the EEOC. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09l.html 2009-09-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Roswell, Ga.- based U.S. Security Associates, Inc., one of the nation's biggest national security guard companies, for violating federal law when a manager subjected a female security guard to pregnancy discrimination and then terminated her in retaliation for complaining about it - in addition to firing her husband, a coworker. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09k.html 2009-09-30 Malvern, Pa.- based Vanguard Group, Inc., one of the world's largest investment management companies, violated federal law when it refused to hire an African American applicant because of her race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09j.html 2009-09-30 Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC, a division of Hilton Hotels Corporation, violated federal law when it refused to hire a former employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09i.html 2009-09-30 Total Electric and Supply Company, doing business as TESSCO, will pay $125,000 to three former employees to settle a racial and national origin harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. TESSCO is an energy and utility services company headquartered in Midland, Texas. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09h.html 2009-09-30 A leading national document services provider based in Dayton, Ohio failed to take appropriate action to stop the sex-based harassment of a female employee at its facility in York, Pa., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09g.html 2009-09-30 Harrisburg-based Stroehmann Bakeries LLC, a subsidiary of Bimbo Bakeries USA, violated federal law when it subjected a production operator to a racially hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09f.html 2009-09-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today, that Salisbury Motor Company, Inc. in Salisbury, N.C., violated federal law by subjecting an African-American employee to a racially hostile work environment and different terms and conditions of employment. Further, the EEOC said, the company fired the man for complaining. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09e.html 2009-09-30 Ralph Jones Sheet Metal, Inc. violated federal law by subjecting African American employees to a hostile work environment because of their race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09d.html 2009-09-30 An Atlanta-area pawn shop chain violated federal law when it fired a female employee in retaliation for complaining about a manager's intimidating and sexually harassing conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Case No. 1:09-CV-2704. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09c.html 2009-09-30 A Houston restaurant violated federal law against race and national origin discrimination when it fired two employees for not speaking Spanish and failed to hire a class of non-Hispanic applicants, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09b.html 2009-09-30 Napoli's Italian Restaurant discriminated against a 17-year old server and other female teen workers by subjecting them to sexual harassment in the form of lewd comments, propositions and touching, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court. Napoli's Italian Restaurant is located in Maryville, Mo. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09a.html 2009-09-30 In a lawsuit filed here today in federal court, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Milwaukee Forge, a Milwaukee forging company, violated federal law by subjecting black employees to a hostile work environment, disciplining them more harshly than white employees, subjecting them to different terms and conditions of employment, and by retaliating against black employees who complained. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-30-09.html 2009-09-30 Sunny Farms Landfill subjected its African American employees to race-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09q.html 2009-09-29 A Saginaw, Mich., provider of health services violated federal law by refusing to return an employee to work because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09p.html 2009-09-29 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. has agreed to pay $37,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Verizon fired Senior Field Clerk Lissa Hannan about 10 days after she complained about perceived sexual harassment by a male contractor. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09o.html 2009-09-29 The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. violated federal law by failing to accommodate and firing an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a workplace discrimination lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09n.html 2009-09-29 A Delaware corporation which provides hospices nationwide violated federal law by firing a Hispanic employee from his position as an executive director of its Kerrville, Texas, facility because of his national origin and because he reported discriminatory conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09m.html 2009-09-29 A Trevose, Pa., restaurant franchise violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it fired an employee because he complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09l.html 2009-09-29 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today it has sued a Houston diagnostics management company and its related companies for firing an employee after learning she was pregnant. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09k.html 2009-09-29 Zachry Industrial, Inc. formerly known as Zachry Construction Corporation, a privately owned construction and industrial maintenance service company based in San Antonio, Texas, violated federal law when it fired a female employee in retaliation for filing a report of sex-based discrimination at her job site as well as a federal charge of discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09j.html 2009-09-29 Vegas Western Cab Company, a major taxicab company in the Las Vegas region, violated federal law by refusing to employ an applicant for a driver position because of his disability, single arm amputation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09i.html 2009-09-29 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. violated federal law by subjecting female employees to wage discrimination, a sexually hostile environment and retaliation at its Polaris Park facility in Columbus, Ohio. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09h.html 2009-09-29 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against TRC Global Solutions, Inc., a Milwaukee firm providing relocation services to corporate clients throughout the country, charging that it unlawfully fired a personal move associate because of her complaints of race discrimination. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09g.html 2009-09-29 Sunny Farms Landfill subjected its African American employees to race-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09f.html 2009-09-29 B&B Drive-In, doing business as Sonic of Kokomo, a fast food restaurant in Kokomo, Ind., violated federal law by subjecting one of its cooks to sexual harassment and then firing her for complaining about the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09e.html 2009-09-29 An employee who opposed workplace harassment was fired by a group of Texas transportation brokerage companies in violation of federal law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09d.html 2009-09-29 Trinity Products, Inc., a manufacturer of billboards and sign posts located in O'Fallon, Mo., violated federal law when a supervisor sexually harassed a female worker and then replaced her when she complained to company managers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a discrimination lawsuit filed today in federal court. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09c.html 2009-09-29 Pizza Pub, Educominc, LLC, doing business as Pizza Pub, Core Curriculum of America, Inc., Curriculum Solutions, Inc. and Active Learning Academy, Inc. - operating as a joint employer or an integrated enterprise - allowed the sexual harassment of a 17-year-old female worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court. Pizza Pub and the other entities are located in Buffalo, Okla. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09b.html 2009-09-29 Lexington, Va., Sawmill Operator George C. Shumate, Inc. violated federal law by allowing a male president and company owner to sexually harass female employees and by firing one of the victims for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09a.html 2009-09-29 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the entry of a record-setting consent decree resolving a class lawsuit against Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Sears) under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) for $6.2 million and significant remedial relief. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-29-09.html 2009-09-29 In a sexual harassment lawsuit filed today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that the owners of three popular Atlanta-area nightclubs violated federal law by subjecting waitresses to a pattern of sexual harassment by two of the owner / managers. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-28-09d.html 2009-09-28 A Terre Haute, Ind., fast food restaurant violated federal law when it subjected its female employees to a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-28-09c.html 2009-09-28 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit Friday against Fireside West, LLC, doing business as the Hilton in Lisle/Naperville, Ill., charging that the hotel violated Title VII by subjecting its Hispanic employees to a hostile work environment. The EEOC's complaint said that the hotel subjected Hispanic employees to frequent ethnic slurs from the hotel's executive chef. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-28-09b.html 2009-09-28 Dollins Construction Company of Sikeston, Mo., violated federal law by racially harassing three African American construction workers and then taking reprisals against them when they complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-28-09a.html 2009-09-28 Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it fired an employee as retaliation for cooperating with a discrimination investigation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. Allsup's, headquartered in Clovis, N.M., has 300 locations throughout New Mexico and Texas and employs approximately 2,500 individuals. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-28-09.html 2009-09-28 Garden Ridge Corporation, a Houston-based home decor retail company with stores nationwide, violated federal law by discriminating against hearing-impaired applicants at its Austin store, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09h.html 2009-09-25 AT&T Services, Inc., doing business as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, L.P. (AT&T), a major telephone company, violated federal law by refusing to hire an applicant simply because he is an insulin-dependent diabetic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09g.html 2009-09-25 A Corpus Christi Sears store violated federal law by refusing to hire a 61-year-old applicant because of his age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09f.html 2009-09-25 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed an employment discrimination suit against Cinram Wireless, L.L.C., a Fort Worth-based CD and DVD manufacturer, for failing to accommodate an employee's schedule so that she could observe her Sabbath, and then firing her. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09e.html 2009-09-25 The owner of The Redwoods in Yosemite vacation homes in Yosemite, Calif., violated federal law by subjecting a class of Latino employees to a pervasive hostile work environment based on their national origin and retaliating against employees for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09d.html 2009-09-25 In a lawsuit filed here today in federal court, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that a nationwide staffing company unlawfully discriminated against a blind woman in Chicago because of her disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09c.html 2009-09-25 Six L's Packing Company (Six L's), an Immokalee-based company specializing in growing, packing, and distributing tomatoes, and related companies LFC Agricultural Services, Inc. and Custom Pak, Inc. violated federal law when they subjected Haitian employees to harassment, disciplined Haitians more severely, and fired Haitians because of their national origin, race, and in retaliation for complaining about the treatment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09b.html 2009-09-25 Jim Walter Resources, the world's largest producer of Blue Creek coal, violated federal law by refusing to grant a reasonable accommodation to a deaf miner and subjecting him to a hostile working environment because of his disability, according to a lawsuit filed today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09a.html 2009-09-25 A Pearsall, Texas nursing and rehabilitation center violated federal law by subjecting an African American employee to racial harassment and retaliation, and also by retaliating against both her and a white colleague who objected to the misconduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-25-09.html 2009-09-25 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit against St. John Health System, Inc., charging that the Tulsa, Okla., hospital violated federal law by removing an employee from her position as a scrub technician and then firing her because of her hearing impairment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09h.html 2009-09-24 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a lawsuit against Adam Brothers Farming, Inc. for sexually harassing and then firing an employee after she complained of sexual harassment. Adam Brothers is an agricultural company in Santa Maria, Calif., that harvests and cans vegetables in Santa Barbara County. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09g.html 2009-09-24 Sentinel Real Estate Corp. violated federal law by denying a promotion to an employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09f.html 2009-09-24 Chesapeake Academy, a private elementary school in Arnold, Md., will pay $75,750 to settle an HIV-related disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09e.html 2009-09-24 Better Family Life, Inc., a community development organization, violated federal law by rescinding a job offer to a woman because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged today in a discrimination lawsuit filed today in federal court. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09d.html 2009-09-24 A Philadelphia-based McDonald’s franchise violated federal civil rights law when it condoned the harassment of a worker with an intellectual disability, the Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09c.html 2009-09-24 The company that owns and operates New Bern Mazda-Suzuki in New Bern, N.C., violated federal law when one of its owners sexually harassed female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09b.html 2009-09-24 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit against Worldclass Automotive, doing business as Planet Ford, a North Houston new and used car dealership and service center. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09a.html 2009-09-24 Presbyterian Village Inc., a retirement community in Little Rock, Ark., violated federal law when it refused to accommodate and then reduced the hours of a dietary aide because of his disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-09.html 2009-09-24 Pace Airlines, Inc. violated federal law by firing a flight attendant after she repeatedly complained of discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. Pace Airlines is a charter airline company that provides executive style aircraft charters to corporations and professional sports and collegiate basketball teams. Pace's main airport is Smith Reynolds-Airport in Winston-Salem. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09a.html 2009-09-23 UPS Freight has agreed to pay $120,000 to settle a gender-based harassment and retaliation lawsuit on behalf of a former clerk at the Benicia warehouse of Overnite Transportation, Inc. (acquired by UPS Freight in 2005), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09b.html 2009-09-23 Innershore Enterprises, Inc. doing business as Marlow 6 Theatre, violated federal law when it fired a concession manager because of her disability, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09c.html 2009-09-23 Southeastern Telecom, Inc. violated federal law by retaliating against one of its employees by firing her one week after she made a complaint of sex discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09d.html 2009-09-23 A group of companies which operate the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Columbus, Ind., unlawfully discriminated against an employee and fired him because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09e.html 2009-09-23 Denton, Texas-based Alliance Rental Center, L.P., which operates an Aaron Rents franchise in Bridgeport, Texas, violated federal law by firing a product technician when he declined to participate in the company's "Red Shirt Friday" dress code, a store practice intended to show support for the U.S. military, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09f.html 2009-09-23 Patton Archery Manufacturing, Inc. violated federal law by subjecting several women to sexual harassment and fostering a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. Patton Archery, founded in 1992 by Dennis Patton and located in Vulcan, Mich., manufactures archery components, such as bows and wood grips. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09g.html 2009-09-23 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against a group of related Dallas-based construction contractors, including AMX Communications, LTD, Allcorp Partners Acquisition, Ltd., et al, doing business as AMX Companies & Affiliates, on behalf of a woman who was employed at various AMX Maryland worksites. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09h.html 2009-09-23 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a discrimination lawsuit against Childress Engineering Services, Inc., charging that the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by subjecting a female employee to sexual harassment and firing her in retaliation for filing a formal complaint with the EEOC's Dallas District Office. Childress, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, provides various types of structural engineering services, from the design of commercial, retail, industrial, institutional and residential development, to building restoration and rehabilitation. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09i.html 2009-09-23 Boh Bros. Construction Co., L.L.C., subjected a former employee to a sexually hostile work environment on a federal post-Katrina bridge repair project and then retaliated against him for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-23-09.html 2009-09-23 A Houston branch of Guardsmark, LLC, a Delaware Corporation doing business in Texas, violated federal law by reassigning a class of female security guards based on customer preference for male guards, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-22-09c.html 2009-09-22 Dillon Companies, Inc., owners of the King Soopers supermarket chain in Colorado, intentionally and unlawfully discriminated against one of its learning-disabled employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-22-09b.html 2009-09-22 A major farm growers' cooperative with processing plants in three states violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to pervasive harassment based on sex and national origin and firing one employee in retaliation for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-22-09a.html 2009-09-22 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a discrimination lawsuit it filed today that Southern Metals Company, a Charlotte metal recycling company, violated federal law by refusing to hire a qualified 76-year-old applicant because of his age. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-22-09.html 2009-09-22 The owner of six Pennsylvania Taco Bell restaurants will pay $35,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a class sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-21-09d.html 2009-09-21 A prominent cardiology practice in Washington, Pa., unlawfully subjected female employees to egregious sexual harassment and fired one woman in retaliation for her opposition to the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-21-09c.html 2009-09-21 Sangria's Mexican Restaurant in Tucker, Ga., violated federal law by subjecting a waitress to sexual harassment and then firing her and family members for reporting it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-21-09b.html 2009-09-21 Smith International Truck Center, a North Carolina trucking garage, unlawfully fired an employee because it perceived him as being disabled, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a disability discrimination lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-21-09a.html 2009-09-21 In a lawsuit filed here today in federal court, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Chicago-based Collectors Training Institute of Illinois, Inc. (CTI) unlawfully retaliated against one of its employees by firing her after she complained about sex discrimination. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-21-09.html 2009-09-21 National clothing retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch, doing business as Abercrombie Kids, allegedly discriminated against a 17-year-old Muslim by refusing to hire her because she wore a hijab, or head scarf, in observance of her sincerely held religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in discrimination lawsuit filed today in federal court. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-17-09b.html 2009-09-17 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released the Annual Report on the Federal Work Force for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, which shows small increases in discrimination complaint filings against federal agencies and in average complaint processing time government-wide. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-17-09a.html 2009-09-17 A historic inn and spa allegedly condoned sexual harassment of several female employees for over one year and penalized the women who complained about the hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-17-09.html 2009-09-17 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) revising its regulations to provide that an individual seeking protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) establish that he or she has a disability consistent with the original, expansive intent of Congress when it enacted the ADA in 1990. The NPRM, approved by 2-1 vote, carries a 60-day period for public comment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09f.html 2009-09-16 NPMG Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Phoenix credit card processing company, will pay $415,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a race harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that NPMG subjected a group of African American workers to racial slurs and epithets. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09g.html 2009-09-16 Sierra Restroom Solutions, a supplier of on-site portable toilets in Northern Nevada, violated federal law by permitting racial harassment in its workplace and by firing an African American driver for reporting it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09d.html 2009-09-16 In a sexual harassment lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina (No. 2:09-cv-02420), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Festiva Resort Services, Inc., which boasts a wide array of resorts throughout the United States and Caribbean, took no action to stop a female supervisor from sexually harassing a male subordinate at its Murrells Inlet, S.C., resort location. The EEOC charged that a female supervisor subjected a male salesperson to an escalating pattern of verbal and physical sexual harassment over a 14-month period. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09e.html 2009-09-16 A Towson, Md., regional community hospital violated federal law when it fired a clerk because he had neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder, and stroke-related impairments, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09.html 2009-09-16 Papermoon, an entertainment club, and related companies Papermoon-Stuart and Imaginary Images, violated federal law when they discriminated against employees on the basis of race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC says the companies discriminated against black employees and retaliated against those who complained. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09a.html 2009-09-16 Greater Metroplex Interiors, Inc., a commercial drywall and acoustics company based in Southlake, Texas, will pay a female former employee $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09b.html 2009-09-16 Mountaire Farms of North Carolina Corp. unlawfully retaliated against a former employee because she complained about race discrimination and filed a discrimination charge, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleges in a lawsuit filed today. Mountaire Farms is a poultry processor that operates a facility in Lumber Bridge, N.C., and employs approximately 2,500 people nationwide. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-09c.html 2009-09-16 A global Fortune 500 staffing company failed to take appropriate action when its employees complained about egregious sexual harassment at a plastic manufacturing plant to which they had been assigned, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-15-09a.html 2009-09-15 Carolina Marble & Tile Co., a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based flooring company, discriminated against blacks and Hispanics by paying them less than their white counterparts, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-15-09.html 2009-09-15 A Michigan-based automotive parts company violated federal law when it conducted blanket drug tests of all of its production employees at its Lawrenceburg, Tenn., manufacturing facility, including testing for lawfully prescribed drugs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09e.html 2009-09-14 Generation Properties II, LLC, doing business as Staybridge Suites, a Research Triangle Park, N.C., based hotel chain, will pay $27,500 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09d.html 2009-09-14 The Alaska affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA-AK) has agreed to provide $170,000 and other relief to settle a federal lawsuit charging that its executive director targeted four female employees for severe harassment because of their gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. This is EEOC's second lawsuit against the NEA-AK charging gender-based harassment; the earlier case was settled on behalf of three other women for $750,000 in 2006 (EEOC and Christopher v. NEA-AK and NEA, CV 01-0225 (JKS). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09a.html 2009-09-14 A Japanese specialty supermarket in Edgewater, N.J., discriminated against Hispanic employees by paying them less than non-Hispanic workers, almost all of whom are Asian, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. Mitsuwa Marketplace specializes in selling Japanese food, beverages, desserts, groceries and other products. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09b.html 2009-09-14 Cleveland supermarket chain Dave's Supermarket violated federal law by subjecting female employees to a workplace environment permeated with sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09c.html 2009-09-14 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a 2006 unanimous federal court jury verdict finding Go Daddy Software, Inc. had retaliated against Youssef Bouamama when it fired him for complaining about discriminatory comments against him. The EEOC sued Go Daddy on Bouamama's behalf. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-14-09.html 2009-09-14 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said today that United States Marshals had escorted the owner and registered agent of ShoreKare, LLC, a local health care provider, to an appearance before District Judge Amy St. Eve yesterday. The judge had issued a "writ of body attachment" for the businessman for failing to comply with EEOC administrative subpoenas and then not obeying a court order relating to those subpoenas. He was in the custody of the United States Marshals Service on Sept. 10, 2009. At a hearing yesterday afternoon, Judge St. Eve gave him until Sept. 24, 2009, to comply with the subpoenas or be at risk of being placed in custody again. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09b.html 2009-09-11 A Bowman, S.C.-based ambulance service illegally fired an emergency medical technician, who is a Jehovah's Witness, for refusing to participate in a Halloween carnival, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a religious discrimination lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09c.html 2009-09-11 A Kannapolis, N.C.-based supplier of forklift and Bobcat loaders agreed to pay $21,000 and furnish substantial non-monetary relief to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that an African American mechanic was subjected to a racially hostile work environment and then fired after complaining to his supervisors about the harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09d.html 2009-09-11 Dolgencorp, LLC, doing business as Dollar General, violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC's lawsuit further charged that one woman had to resign from her job because of the harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09e.html 2009-09-11 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major settlement of an age discrimination class lawsuit against Allstate Insurance Company, one of the nation’s largest insurers, for $4,500,000 to be paid to approximately 90 older former employees, in addition to significant remedial relief. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09a.html 2009-09-11 Jewel-Osco, an operating unit of national grocery giant Supervalu, Inc., has been violating federal anti-discrimination law by its leave and disability policies, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-11-09.html 2009-09-11 An Alice, Texas-based oilfield service company will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race, national origin and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged the company's Hispanic supervisors discriminated against a parts department employee because of his race (Caucasian) and national origin (non-Hispanic) and then fired him for complaining. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-9-09a.html 2009-09-09 Stokesdale, N.C.-based Yates Construction Company, Inc. violated federal law by subjecting African American employees to a racially hostile environment and by firing one of its African-American employees for complaining about the situation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-9-09a.html 2009-09-09 A Phoenix, Ariz.-based trucking company will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-8-09a.html 2009-09-08 The largest metal food can supplier in North America, Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation, violated federal law by discriminating against a disabled employee at its plant in Oconomowoc, Wis., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-8-09.html 2009-09-08 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a disability discrimination lawsuit in federal court here charging that Jewel-Osco, an operating unit of national grocery giant Supevalu, Inc., refused to accommodate a pharmacy worker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, known as COPD, and severe allergic reactions to cosmetic fragrances. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-4-09.html 2009-09-04 A Starbucks store in Russellville, Ark., violated federal law when it refused to hire an applicant for a barista position because of his multiple sclerosis (MS), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09.html 2009-09-03 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has sued Sara Lee Corporation, doing business as Sara Lee Foodservice, for suspending and firing an employee who complained that African American workers were treated less favorably than their Hispanic co-workers based on race. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09a.html 2009-09-03 Automall Imports, Ltd., doing business as Atlantic Chevrolet / Cadillac, will pay $127,500 to two former black employees to settle a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09b.html 2009-09-03 Red Rock Western Jeep Tours, Inc. violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by terminating Gloria N. Rose, who was 75 years of age at the time, and replacing her with a significantly younger worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed this week. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09c.html 2009-09-03 L&W Supply Corporation has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for nearly $50,000 and other relief on behalf of an African American employee who was subjected to discrimination based on race, the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09d.html 2009-09-03 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit against KLLM Transport Services, Inc. (KLLM) for $56,500 and remedial relief on behalf of a qualified truck driver who was rejected for a job due to his prosthetic leg. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09e.html 2009-09-03 Nurse One / Team One, LLC, a provider of home health care services, violated federal law by condoning a sexually hostile work environment in the home of one of its clients and firing one victim for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-09f.html 2009-09-03 St. Joseph's Community Hospital of West Bend, Wis., will pay $70,000 and furnish other relief under a consent decree to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-2-09.html 2009-09-02 Mars Super Markets, Inc., a Baltimore-based supermarket chain, will pay $275,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a class sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-1-09b.html 2009-09-01 Product Fabricators, Inc., a Pine City, Minn., contract manufacturer, has violated federal disability discrimination law by its policies requiring employees to report their use of legal prescription drugs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed late yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-1-09a.html 2009-09-01 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today that Digital Cable and Communications South, Inc., a Parma, Ohio-based cable TV installation company, violated federal law by denying hire to female applicants for cable technician jobs. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-1-09.html 2009-09-01 Winston-Salem-based gas station / convenience store chain WilcoHess, LLC agreed to pay $75,000 and furnish substantial non-monetary relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC announced today that Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, has signed and entered the agreement between the parties. In the lawsuit, the EEOC had charged that a female cashier was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment and then retaliated against by the company after she complained about the harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-31-09.html 2009-08-31 Taco Bell Corporation will pay a total of $350,000 in monetary damages to two young women to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that two teenaged workers were assaulted at a Memphis Taco Bell. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-28-09a.html 2009-08-28 The company that owns and operates a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Raleigh, N.C., violated federal law by allowing a male employee to sexually harass female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-28-09b.html 2009-08-28 In a major class lawsuit filed here in federal court, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), the world’s largest package delivery company, violated federal law by rejecting an extension of medical leave as a reasonable accommodation for its employees with disabilities. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-28-09.html 2009-08-28 The franchisee of the Sonic Drive-In Restaurant in Lucedale, Miss., will pay $22,000 in compensatory damages and furnish remedial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Ted Riley Corporation unlawfully fired an employee after learning she had experienced an epileptic seizure at home. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-27-09d.html 2009-08-27 Rexam Beverage Can Americas, Inc., the American division of the world's leading beverage can maker, will pay $30,000 and provide remedial relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-27-09e.html 2009-08-27 Pittsburgh Plastics Manufacturing, Inc. unlawfully subjected a class of women to egregious sexual harassment and fired an employee who opposed the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-26-09.html 2009-08-26 Delray Beach-based engineering and construction companies Cobra Construction, Inc. and Cobra Pavers and Engineering, Inc. violated federal law when they sexually harassed female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-26-09a.html 2009-08-26 GKN Driveline North America, Inc., a Sanford, N.C.- based automotive components company, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee's religious beliefs and by firing him because of his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-26-09b.html 2009-08-26 A Memphis, Tenn., airline operating out of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport violated federal law by firing a flight operations clerk on the basis of her disability, left knee arthritis, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-26-09c.html 2009-08-26 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a discrimination lawsuit against national retailer Target Stores, Inc. for unlawfully denying a reasonable accommodation to an employee with multiple disability-based impairments and substantially reducing his work hours due to the medical conditions. The disabled worker could not effectively communicate with others without the assistance of a job coach because of his cerebral palsy and limited intellectual functioning. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-24-09.html 2009-08-24 A Parsons, Tenn., manufacturer of car hauler trailers violated federal law by refusing to hire women as welders, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-21-09a.html 2009-08-21 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major settlement of a discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Inc. for $1.72 million and significant remedial relief on behalf of three employees in their twenties who were subjected to a pervasive sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against for complaining about it. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-21-09.html 2009-08-21 Payday lending chain Cottonwood Financial, Ltd., which does business as The Cash Store, refused to accommodate a manager with bipolar disorder at its store in Walla Walla, Wash., and unlawfully fired him due to his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-20-09b.html 2009-08-20 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against AT&T, Inc. and a number of its subsidiaries, the agency announced today. The EEOC charged that AT&T discriminated against a class of retired AT&T workers by denying them the ability for reemployment solely because they retired under early retirement plans including the Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program (VRIP), the Enhanced Pension and Retirement Program (EPR) or other retirement plan. The effect of this denial of reemployment results in a disproportionate number of older workers not having the same opportunity to apply for reemployment, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-20-09.html 2009-08-20 Wilcox Farms, which operates dairy and egg production facilities in Oregon and Washington, will pay $260,000 and provide remedial relief to settle a federal sexual harassment and retaliation suit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-20-09a.html 2009-08-20 Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership, an auto parts manufacturer based in Michigan with substantial operations in New Hampshire, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged Freudenberg refused to hire a man because of his age for a controller position at its Bristol, N.H., facility. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09e.html 2009-08-19 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced it has filed a lawsuit charging Lane Hotel Management Company, LLC, with pregnancy discrimination. The Alabama company operates Capitol Inn and The Four Seasons Restaurant, with its principal place of business in Montgomery. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09d.html 2009-08-19 A McGehee, Ark., Terminix exterminator service violated federal law by firing an employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09c.html 2009-08-19 The U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) today charged that three supermarkets in Queens hired women only as cashiers and refused to consider them for other positions, in violation of federal law. The supermarkets are Dynasty VI Food Corp. in Ridgewood, Dynasty Meat Corp. in Sunnyside and 50-18 Meat Corp. in Woodside. Each does business as a Key Food or Food Dynasty Super­market. They are all owned and operated by Ahmad Zahriyeh and Mufeed Siad and are managed out of the Woodside location, according to the suit. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09b.html 2009-08-19 PetSmart, Inc., the nation’s leading retailer of services and products for pets, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a federal sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09a.html 2009-08-19 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis Rams, the city’s National Football League (NFL) team, for $134,000 and important remedial relief on behalf of Ron DuBuque, a long-term employee with a seizure disorder. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-19-09.html 2009-08-19 Spencer Reed Group, LLC, a Kansas-based staffing company, unlawfully discriminated against a 55-year-old Caucasian employee because of her race and age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. Spencer Reed provides staffing and administrative services to the federal General Services Administration (GSA). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-18-09.html 2009-08-18 K1 Speed, Inc., a Carlsbad, Calif.-based go-kart racing operation, will provide $50,000 and other relief to settle a federal lawsuit charging that the company refused to accommodate an employee with cystic fibrosis and fired him from its facility in Redmond, Wash., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-17-09.html 2009-08-17 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that an independent Austin-based insurance agency has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle an EEOC pregnancy discrimination lawsuit. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-14-09.html 2009-08-14 Management Solutions, Inc. (MSI), an apartment management company, violated federal law by punishing a white manager for hiring a black employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-14-09a.html 2009-08-14 A machine parts manufacturer formerly located in Milwaukee, Universal Brixius, LLC, violated federal law by subjecting a female employee to different terms and conditions of employment and by firing her because of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed here in federal court. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-13-09c.html 2009-08-13 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today that Professional Building Systems of North Carolina, LLC, violated federal law by subjecting African American employees to a racially hostile work environment. Professional Building Systems builds custom modular homes in two locations including at its facilities in Middleburg, Pa., and Mount Gilead, N.C., where the racial harassment occurred. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-13-09a.html 2009-08-13 Puerto Rico's largest medical center violated federal law when it refused to accommodate a male nurse's religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. Further, the EEOC said, Hospital Auxilio Mutuo unlawfully suspended and fired the employee because of his religion. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-13-09b.html 2009-08-13 R-Anell Housing Group, LLC, a manufacturer of pre-fabricated commercial structures and custom modular homes, will pay $200,000 and provide significant injunctive relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-13-09.html 2009-08-13 The largest metal food can supplier in North America, Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation, violated federal law by discriminating against an African American employee at its plant in Oconomowoc, Wis., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-12-09d.html 2009-08-12 A New Jersey-based trucking company violated federal law by firing a female truck driver just hours after learning of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-12-09c.html 2009-08-12 A Washington Park, Ill., packaging and warehousing company will pay $57,500 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-12-09b.html 2009-08-12 Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LP, LLLP, will pay $45,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-12-09a.html 2009-08-12 A nationwide freight management company violated federal law by refusing to hire non-Hispanics, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-12-09.html 2009-08-12 E&D Services, Inc., a Mississippi-based drilling company accused of engaging in racial harassment and retaliation against white and black employees at a South Texas work site, has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a Title VII lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-11-09.html 2009-08-11 Alternative Staffing, Inc., a Charleston, S.C.-based temporary employment staffing firm, and Clancy & Theys, a construction company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. The EEOC’s further charged that Alternative Staffing forced three female employees out of their jobs because of their sex. Finally, the EEOC said, Clancy & Theys interfered with the equal employment opportunities of its female employees. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-10-09.html 2009-08-10 Advance Auto Parts, the second-largest automotive aftermarket retailer in the United States, has agreed to pay $40,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-7-09a.html 2009-08-07 Grand Central Partnership, Inc. (GCP) has agreed to settle a religious and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. GCP was created by Midtown Manhattan property owners and businesses to revitalize the neighborhood surrounding Grand Central Terminal and it provides privately managed sanitation, maintenance and public safety operations. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-7-09.html 2009-08-07 Regis Corporation, doing business as SmartStyle, will pay $26,250 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-7-09d.html 2009-08-07 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Atlanta-based Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc., will pay $84,750 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-7-09b.html 2009-08-07 A Salt Lake City-based media duplication company will pay $65,000 to a former employee and furnish other injunctive relief in a consent decree to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-7-09c.html 2009-08-07 A Pinehurst, N.C.-based support services company for condo­minium complexes and resorts will pay $44,700 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Little River Golf, Inc. unlawfully discharged six employees because of their race (African American) and national origin (non-Hispanic). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-6-09a.html 2009-08-06 A Georgetown, Ky., restaurant will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-6-09b.html 2009-08-06 A dry cleaner that has 10 facilities in the Twin Cities violated federal law by firing an employee because she was pregnant, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-6-09.html 2009-08-06 AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless), a Fortune 500 telecommunications company, will pay $75,000 to settle a federal race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-5-09.html 2009-08-05 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a class litigation settlement against Hometown Buffet, Inc., on behalf of teens and Latinas who were subjected to a sexually hostile workplace, including verbal and physical abuse, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-3-09a.html 2009-08-03 Aveva Drug Delivery Systems, Inc., a Miramar, Fla.-based transdermal patch manufacturer, violated federal law when it fired an employee because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-3-09.html 2009-08-03 A major Midwestern lumber supplier, Biewer Wisconsin Sawmill, Inc. (Biewer), violated federal law by allowing female employees to be sexually harassed at its sawmill in Prentice, Wis., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-31-09c.html 2009-07-31 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a discrimination lawsuit filed today that the City of Greensboro violated federal law by refusing to hire a qualified 58-year-old applicant because of his age, and instead hiring younger, less qualified applicants. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-31-09b.html 2009-07-31 A Detroit provider of charter school education and related education services violated federal law by firing an employee because of her breast cancer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-31-09a.html 2009-07-31 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a Satisfaction of Judgment was entered in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Jonesboro Division, in a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the federal agency against communications giant AT&T, Inc. on behalf of two male customer service technicians who were suspended and fired for attending a Jehovah's Witnesses Convention. AT&T paid a total of $1,307,597 pursuant to the judgments entered in the case. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-31-09.html 2009-07-31 The Sahara Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment for an Egyptian kitchen employee through a daily barrage of derogatory comments due to his national origin and retaliating against him when he reported it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-30-09d.html 2009-07-30 The Gulf Coast Division of a nationwide office products supplier violated federal law by denying an African American account manager fair wages due to his race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-30-09c.html 2009-07-30 The Health Management Group, Inc., the parent company for franchises Physicians Weight Loss Centers of America, Inc., and Diet Center Worldwide, Inc., violated federal law when it paid two female employees less than a male employee who performed the same duties, according to a lawsuit filed today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-30-09b.html 2009-07-30 In two separate lawsuits filed today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged municipalities in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, with discriminating against older volunteer firefighters because of their age in violation of federal law. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-30-09a.html 2009-07-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a disability discrimination lawsuit against an Aransas Pass, Texas-based personal loan company for terminating an employee because of her relationship with her husband, who had a medical condition, and because the employer regarded her as being disabled. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-30-09.html 2009-07-30 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a sex discrimination lawsuit against Luby's Restaurants Limited Partnership, doing business as Luby's San Antonio #19 (Luby's), for $135,000 and significant remedial relief on behalf of a class of female workers who were subjected to a pervasive sexually hostile work environment for years. Houston-based Luby's operates 128 restaurants in five states with several locations in San Antonio and throughout Texas. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-29-09a.html 2009-07-29 Food service giant AVI Foodsystems, Inc. (AVI) will pay more than $90,000 and offer jobs to discrimination victims to settle a class disability discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-29-09.html 2009-07-29 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit in federal court announced today that a steak and seafood restaurant in Manalapan, Fla., violated federal law by discriminating against a female food server it regarded as being disabled and because of her relationship to a person with a disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-28-09a.html 2009-07-28 L&T Group of Companies, Ltd., the largest employer and conglomerate of garment manufacturers in Saipan, has agreed to pay $1.7 million and to provide far reaching and significant injunctive relief to settle a series of lawsuits filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that charged the company with retaliation and discrimination based on national origin, pregnancy and age, all in violation of federal law. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-28-09.html 2009-07-28 The U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina has ordered electrical contractor T&D Electric Company of Burlington, N.C., to pay $175,674 to two female employees who were subjected to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-24-09a.html 2009-07-24 ABM Janitorial Services-South Central, Inc. has agreed to pay $46,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-24-09.html 2009-07-24 54 Downtown, Inc., a Texas corporation which owned and operated Studio 69, a downtown El Paso nightclub, has agreed to pay $15,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-23-09.html 2009-07-23 Schwan's Global Supply Chain, Inc., a Kentucky area frozen food distributor, violated federal law by refusing to hire a qualified applicant for a job because of his vision impairment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a disability discrimination lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-22-09a.html 2009-07-22 A White Marsh, Md., medical practice will pay for $125,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Medical Health Group, Inc., refused to return an employee to work who had recovered from breast cancer surgery. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-22-09.html 2009-07-22 The owners of a Lexington, N.C., furniture store will pay $80,000 and furnish significant injunctive relief to settle a race harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-21-09.html 2009-07-21 White Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, an elder-care facility in White Hall, Ark., will pay $24,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-20-09.html 2009-07-20 A Tampa-based environmental clean-up company violated federal law by discriminating against and racially harassing African American employees at its Lake Calumet work site in Chicago, including the display of hangman’s nooses, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-16-09.html 2009-07-16 Scrub, Inc., a Chicago janitorial services provider, violated federal law by discriminating against African Americans in hiring, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a race discrimination lawsuit announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-15-09a.html 2009-07-15 Highlighting the “devastating impact” of age discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today held a public hearing on recent developments under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), including the effect on older workers of widespread layoffs, threats to employee benefits, and controversial recent court decisions. The Commission will consider expert panelists’ proposals for regulatory and legislative action, and today issued a technical assistance document on waivers as part of severance agreements. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-15-09.html 2009-07-15 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its annual federal sector EXCEL (Examining Conflicts in Employment Law) conference from July 26 to 30 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel. EXCEL is the premier national federal sector law conference and the most comprehensive of its kind examining contemporary equal employment opportunity issues and other workplace topics. The multi-day interactive and educational program features eight plenary sessions and more than 50 workshops. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-14-09.html 2009-07-14 ResCom Services, Inc., a Vista, Calif.-based property service company, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Latino employees were discriminated against when ResCom disciplined them for being absent from work on May 1, 2006, the day of a "May Day" immigration rally. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-13-09.html 2009-07-13 A Springfield, Ky., construction company violated federal law by subjecting a male employee to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-13-09a.html 2009-07-13 A Greenville mental health services provider violated federal law when it subjected its female employees to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-10-09.html 2009-07-10 National employment agency chain Preferred Labor LLC, doing business as Preferred People Staffing, has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Preferred Labor agreed to settle the lawsuit after selling its entire temporary day labor business to another employment agency. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-9-09a.html 2009-07-09 Nationwide optician chain LensCrafters violated federal law by failing to address sexual harassment complaints from a male employee at its Saginaw store about a female co-worker and perpetuating a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-9-09.html 2009-07-09 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit against A&A Contracting, a St. Louis construction company, charging that the company violated federal law by firing one of its permanent construction workers because it regarded him as disabled. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-7-09b.html 2009-07-07 In light of widespread layoffs, a significant spike in age discrimination charges, threats to employee benefits, and controversial recent court decisions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public hearing Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M St, NE, Washington, DC., to discuss age discrimination in employment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-7-09a.html 2009-07-07 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Swissotel will pay $90,000 under a consent decree entered by the federal district court here to resolve a harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the EEOC on behalf of a developmentally disabled adult. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-7-09.html 2009-07-07 Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has appointed Dexter Brooks as the EEOC's Director of Federal Sector Programs, the EEOC announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-6-09.html 2009-07-06 A large Pennsylvania construction company violated federal civil rights law when it rescinded a conditional job offer to an applicant because it learned that he has diabetes, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-2-09a.html 2009-07-02 Simon Property Group, Inc., a nationwide commercial property management company, violated federal law by subjecting Hispanic employees to national origin discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges in a lawsuit filed today. Simon Property Group owns and/or manages various shopping malls throughout the country, including the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where the EEOC said the discriminatory acts took place. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-2-09.html 2009-07-02 Kmart Corporation, which operates several stores in Hawaii, violated federal law by subjecting a 73-year-old female pharmacist to age harassment, retaliation and forcing her out of her job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-1-09.html 2009-07-01 A St. Louis-based plastic injection molding company violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees at its Sherman, Miss., plant to a sexually hostile work environment and forcing several of them to quit their jobs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-1-09a.html 2009-07-01 Starrett City, Inc., a federally funded housing complex in Brooklyn, will pay $70,000 to a former employee to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-30-09.html 2009-06-30 Lakemont Homes Inc., a major real estate development, construction, and management group in California and Nevada, violated federal law by subjecting a class of women to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, and retaliation for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-30-09a.html 2009-06-30 Beverage Solutions, Inc., a Chicago-area beverage distribution company, violated federal law by refusing to reasonably accommodate the needs of one of its employees who needed medical leave, and firing her, because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-25-09.html 2009-06-25 National retail giant Kmart Corporation violated federal law by firing an employee because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) on behalf of a former worker who uses an assistive walking device. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-24-09.html 2009-06-24 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that federal Magistrate Judge Sandra M. Snyder has issued a court order requiring that the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) not interfere with the EEOC’s investigation of the California state agency, which provides services and support to persons with developmental disabilities. DDS allegedly threatened witnesses with criminal prosecution if they cooperated with the EEOC’s investigation. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-24-09a.html 2009-06-24 Koper Furniture violated federal law when it permitted a store manager to harass a dark-complexioned Puerto Rican employee because of his skin color and fired him for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-22-09b.html 2009-06-22 A popular Hickory Hills, Ill., banquet facility and country club will pay up to $690,000 to settle two lawsuits, charging sex and race discrimination and retaliation, brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-22-09a.html 2009-06-22 The Vail Corporation, which operates ski resorts in Vail and Keystone, Colo., will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a religious and gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-22-09.html 2009-06-22 The California State University System (CSUS) has agreed to settle an age discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a longtime San Francisco State University Lecturer for $50,000 and other relief, the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-19-09.html 2009-06-19 Catholic Charities, one of the largest non-profit providers of social services in the San Francisco Bay Area, has agreed to pay $30,000 and other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-18-09b.html 2009-06-18 A Molalla, Ore., nursery violated federal law when it allowed female employees to be severely sexually harassed and retaliated against the women and male co-workers after they reported the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. This is the agency’s third such case against Oregon agricultural employers. Last October, the EEOC filed lawsuits against Scheimer Farms of Nyassa, Ore., and against Wilcox Farms, Inc., and Wilcox Dairy Farms Group in Aurora, Ore. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-18-09a.html 2009-06-18 United Parcel Service (UPS) will offer monetary damages and religious accommodations to a 19-year employee at UPS's Bartlett, Tenn., facility to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-18-09.html 2009-06-18 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted today to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008, which would make it easier for an individual seeking protection under the ADA to establish that he or she has a disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-17-09.html 2009-06-17 A Phoenix-based international military contractor will pay $110,000 and furnish other relief to settle lawsuit charging a sex and age discrimination and unlawful retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-17-09a.html 2009-06-17 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a class litigation settlement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for one half million dollars and significant remedial relief in a case against Fire Mountain Restaurants LLC, doing business as Ryan's Family Steakhouse (Ryan's). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-15-09b.html 2009-06-15 A San Antonio maintenance company and a real estate management company will pay $29,500 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-15-09a.html 2009-06-15 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next public meeting on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M St, NE, Washington, DC. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-15-09.html 2009-06-15 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that national retail giant Dillard's, Inc. will pay $110,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a same-sex harassment lawsuit involving two male victims. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-11-09.html 2009-06-11 Brooks Run Mining Company and staffing firm Neal & Associates will pay $115,000 to settle a sex-based discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-11-09a.html 2009-06-11 An eight person federal jury has returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a sexual harassment lawsuit against AutoZone, Inc., the Memphis, Tenn.-based national auto parts retail giant, the EEOC announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-11-09b.html 2009-06-11 B&E Industries, doing business as Spirit Stop, will pay $67,500 to two former employees to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. B&E Industries, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, manufactures and then markets customized spirit items for high schools. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-10-09a.html 2009-06-10 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major settlement of a sex discrimination lawsuit for $1,450,000 and significant equitable relief against Schott North America, a multinational developer and manufacturer of special glass and specialty materials, components and systems, based in Elmsford, N.Y. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-10-09.html 2009-06-10 The University of Phoenix, Inc. will pay $32,500 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-9-09.html 2009-06-09 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Aaron Brothers, Inc. (Aaron Brothers) must provide nationwide statistical pay data, according to a ruling by U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz. The EEOC issued a subpoena during the course of a nationwide investigation into the company to determine if the retailer discriminated against female managers by paying them less than their male counterparts. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-8-09.html 2009-06-08 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today sued Chicago-based global air carrier United Airlines for discriminating against a class of employees with disabilities by failing to provide job transfers to vacant positions, despite their qualifications, as a reasonable accommodation. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-4-09.html 2009-06-04 A construction contractor operating at Texas refineries will pay $175,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-3-09b.html 2009-06-03 Providence Alaska Medical Center has agreed to pay $220,000 and other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit on behalf of five workers laid off and denied rehire because of their age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-3-09a.html 2009-06-03 The Crom Corporation and Crom Equip­ment Rentals violated federal law when they allowed the racial harassment of black employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. The EEOC also says the Florida-based construction companies unlawfully suspended an African American employee for complaining about severe racial insults, threats and physical abuse. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-3-09.html 2009-06-03 Muskegon Family Care, a family medical center, has agreed to pay $85,280 and provide substantial injunctive relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-2-09.html 2009-06-02 Area Erectors, Inc., a construction company headquartered in Rockford, Ill., will pay $630,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a race discrimination class lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-29-09.html 2009-05-29 Oil Company ConocoPhillips has agreed to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-28-09a.html 2009-05-28 Town & Country Grocers of Fredericktown, Missouri, Inc., doing business as Country Mart Grocery (Country Mart), will pay $27,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a female African American worker, the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-28-09b.html 2009-05-28 A Gaithersburg, Md.-based storage facility will pay $95,000 and furnish other substantial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-28-09.html 2009-05-28 Duane Reade Inc., a well-known New York drugstore chain that operates more than 200 stores in metropolitan New York, will pay $240,000 and furnish other substantial relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-27-09.html 2009-05-27 A North Carolina lumber and hardware retailer will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Talbert subjected a black worker to a racially hostile work environment. Talbert Building Supply operates two locations, including one in Durham, N.C., where the racial harassment occurred. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-26-09.html 2009-05-26 The New Hanover Regional Medical Center has violated federal disability discrimination law by its drug policies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The EEOC charged that the center unlawfully prohibited applicants and employees from working there if they were taking a legally prescribed narcotic medication. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-22-09b.html 2009-05-22 A restaurant, lounge, night club and liquor store in Pembroke Pines, Fla., violated federal law when it discriminated against older employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-22-09a.html 2009-05-22 Ceisel Masonry will pay half a million dollars to settle a race and national origin discrimina­tion lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC’s suit charged that the north suburban construction company violated federal anti-discrimination laws by subjecting its Hispanic workers to harassment based upon their race and national origin. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-22-09.html 2009-05-22 A federal district court today awarded the maximum damages of $50,000 and significant injunctive relief in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a discrimination lawsuit against a Dallas-based commercial janitorial company, the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-21-09a.html 2009-05-21 A government contractor that provides technology services to the U.S. Army at its Aberdeen, Md., location will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-21-09.html 2009-05-21 Delphi Corporation, one of the world's largest suppliers of automotive parts, will pay $80,000 and agree to injunctive relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that the company violated federal law by subjecting employees to unlawful inquiries into their medical conditions and retaliating against those who objected to the inquiries. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-20-09.html 2009-05-20 Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has appointed expert mediator and manager Victor Voloshin as the EEOC's Chief Mediation Officer and Director of RESOLVE, the agency's internal mediation program, the EEOC announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-20-09.html 2009-05-20 West Front Street Foods, LLC, doing business as Compare Foods, will pay $30,000 and provide other relief to settle a national origin and race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that West Front Street Foods fired Robert Bruce, a white, non-Hispanic meat cutter, from a Compare Foods supermarket it operated in Statesville, N.C., based on his race and national origin. The lawsuit also charged that Bruce was replaced by a Hispanic worker as a racially motivated maneuver. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-19-09.html 2009-05-19 Jack in the Box will pay $20,000 compensatory damages and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-18-09.html 2009-05-18 Conroe, Texas-based Maverick Tube Corporation will pay $175,000 to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-14-09a.html 2009-05-15 A Fredericksburg, Texas restaurant will pay $50,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-14-09.html 2009-05-14 A Tullytown, Pa., distributor of home heating oil has agreed to pay $80,000 and provide significant equitable relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Meenan Oil Company unlawfully fired sales representative Louis Ceccoli of Langhorne, Pa., because of his age, 71. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-13-09.html 2009-05-13 A Northern Indiana plastics product manufacturer unlawfully refused to promote a class of women workers to certain production jobs because of their sex, according to a lawsuit filed on May 13, 2009 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-13-09a.html 2009-05-13 A Pittsburgh hospital has agreed to pay $100,000 and furnish other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged the hospital with firing an employee because she had cancer. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-12-09.html 2009-05-12 Dawes County, located in northwestern Nebraska, will pay $50,000 to an elderly former employee to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-8-09.html 2009-05-08 Sam's Club, the wholesale chain store owned and operated by Wal-Mart, violated federal law by compelling Latino employees to endure a hostile work environment based upon their Mexican national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-7-09.html 2009-05-07 Sacramento restaurant group Paramoor, Inc., will pay $60,000 and provide remedial relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Paramoor allowed the sexual harassment of two line cooks at the former Paragary's Gold River Bar & Oven (which has since been sold, operating under new ownership and a new name). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-4-09.html 2009-05-04 In a race discrimination lawsuit filed today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that a GM Pontiac-Buick car dealership committed racial discrimin­ation at its Augusta, Ga., location. The EEOC charged that a white male management consultant subjected an African American sales manager to a racially hostile work environment over a four-month period. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-30-09b.html 2009-04-30 John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, Inc., an Atlanta-based home builder, unlawfully engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against black sales agents, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-30-09a.html 2009-04-30 Heartland Employment Services, LLC, doing business as ManorCare of Indy South, an Indianapolis nursing home, will pay $56,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-30-09.html 2009-04-30 A Southfield, Mich.-based chain of weight loss clinics will pay $68,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Medical Weight Loss Clinic, Inc. unlawfully fired an employee with bipolar disorder because it regarded her as disabled, even though she had a superior work record with the company. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-29-09.html 2009-04-29 Southern Hills Medical Center will pay $70,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-28-09.html 2009-04-28 A Garner, N.C.-based engineering and design company will pay $10,250 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Tyndall Engineering and Design, P.A. disciplined workers in a discriminatory fashion based on gender when it fired a female employee at its Raleigh facility after she returned from a leave of absence, while not firing men in similar situations. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-24-09.html 2009-04-24 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a document on best practices to avoid discrimination against workers with caregiving responsibilities, and held a public meeting to discuss the importance of policies that protect caregivers in an economic downturn. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-22-09.html 2009-04-22 A North Little Rock, Ark.-based third-party receivables management company for health clubs will pay $20,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-17-09.html 2009-04-17 The Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation, Inc. (FINR) violated federal law when it denied a job to a hearing-impaired person because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-16-09b.html 2009-04-16 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public meeting at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time), Wednesday, April 22, to address best practices to avoid discrimination against workers with caregiving responsibilities.The meeting, at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E., is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations, in accordance with the Sunshine Act. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-16-09.html 2009-04-16 National department store Nordstrom, Inc. will pay $292,500 to 10 former employees and furnish other remedial measures to settle a harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. EEOC had charged that the department store manager harassed Hispanic and black employees based on their national origin, race, and color, and retaliated against those who complained about the harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-16-09a.html 2009-04-16 United States Steel Corporation, a Pittsburgh-headquartered steel manufacturing company, violated federal law by denying a job to an applicant because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-15-09a.html 2009-04-15 A Harrisburg, Pa.-based trucking dealership has agreed to pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Transteck, Inc., doing business as Freightliner of Philadelphia, violated federal civil rights laws when it failed to give salary increases to a black diesel technician because of his race. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-15-09.html 2009-04-15 Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., Skilled Healthcare, LLC, and other affiliated companies, will pay up to $450,000 and provide significant remedial relief to a class of Hispanic employees at its nursing homes and assisted living facilities who were subject to harassment, different terms and conditions of employment, promotion, compensation, and treatment through the implementation of an English-only rule that was only enforced against Hispanics, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-14-09.html 2009-04-14 A federal district court today entered a Federal Court Judgment for over $267,000 and significant injunctive relief in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a discrimination lawsuit against Sunfire Glass, Inc. The EEOC's suit charged that the company's owner subjected a class of female employees to severe physical and verbal sexual harassment in violation of federal law. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-13-09a.html 2009-04-13 A New Iberia, La.-based Sonic restaurant franchisee violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-13-09.html 2009-04-13 A Radnor, Pa.-based liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice manufacturer will pay $40,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Airgas Carbonic, Inc. refused to promote a black employee at its Hopewell, Va., plant because of his race. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-9-09a.html 2009-04-09 Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores, Inc. will pay $255,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-9-09.html 2009-04-09 99 Cents, Inc., Yun's Inc., and Townhouse Inc., which own and operate various grocery markets in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), will pay $80,000 and provide substantial remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and retaliation case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09e.html 2009-04-08 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a race discrimination lawsuit against ConMed Corp on behalf of Paul Hickman, an African American former employee who was terminated from his position as sales representative for the ConMed Midwest Office division because of his race. ConMed is an international medical device corporation specializing in orthopedics and general surgery. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09a.html 2009-04-08 The Memphis unit of a Houston-based concrete supplier violated federal law by refusing to place a worker into a sales job because of his national origin, Asian, and age, subjecting him to harassment and retaliating against him for opposing that unlawful conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09b.html 2009-04-08 Benedict College discriminated against three white faculty members because of their race in 2005, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The lawsuit was filed along with a consent decree resolving the case. Benedict College is a private historically black college located in Columbia, S.C. According to its web site, Benedict College has over 2,500 under­graduate students. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09c.html 2009-04-08 A Germantown, Tenn.-based telemarketing company violated federal law by subjecting a class of women employees to sexual harassment and unlawful retalia­tion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09d.html 2009-04-08 Marjam Supply Company, Inc., a building materials supplier, will pay $495,000 to five former employees to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-8-09.html 2009-04-08 A Clearfield, Utah-based Japanese restaurant violated federal law by firing a server because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-2-09.html 2009-04-02 Delaware County Pain Management will pay $95,000 and provide equitable relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-1-09.html 2009-04-01 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has settled its pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against two international corporations for $64,500 in monetary relief and remedial relief and that Federal District Court Judge G. Murray Snow signed the consent decrees resolving this case. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-1-09a.html 2009-04-01 According to the EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-00803-WDQ), filed in U.S District Court for the District of Maryland, Medical Health Group, Inc., violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it discriminated against Barbara Metzger by firing her when she had attempted to return to work. Metzger had been employed as a referral clerk for the practice for nearly 25 years; the practice was acquired by Medical Health Group, Inc. in 2002. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2007 and fired on May 31, 2007, about one week before her approved medical leave ended. At the time of her termination, Metzger had informed the defendant that she planned to work while undergoing her remaining chemotherapy sessions and radiation therapy. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-1-09b.html 2009-04-01 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit against Accurate Insulation, LLC, on behalf of a female and class of African American workers who were employed at its Upper Marlboro, Md. location. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-1-09c.html 2009-04-01 Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., which engages in business activities related to road construction, violated federal law by subjecting a class of women to sexual harassment and firing one woman for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-1-09d.html 2009-04-01 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Magistrate Judge Jeanne J. Graham of the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., has ordered final approval of consent decrees settling two religious discrimination lawsuits brought by the EEOC against a leading St. Cloud, Minn.-based chicken processor, Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc., and an employment agency, The Work Connection. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-31-09.html 2009-03-31 Britthaven, Inc., a Kinston, N.C.-based nursing home and assisted living chain, will pay $300,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-31-09a.html 2009-03-31 A Hibbing, Minn., taconite mining company violated federal law by denying an applicant a reasonable accommodation for his hearing impairment and then rejecting him from employment because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-30-09b.html 2009-03-31 A North Carolina yarn manufacturing company violated federal law by subjecting an employee to sexual harassment and then retaliating against her for com­plaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-30-09.html 2009-03-30 Franke, Inc., doing business as Franke Foodservice Systems, will offer permanent employment to an African American applicant and furnish other relief to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-26-09c.html 2009-03-26 Three commonly owned North Carolina placement agencies violated federal law by terminating an employee for opposing sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-26-09b.html 2009-03-26 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) practice of giving time off to employees who worked extra hours was insufficient for certain investigators and mediators, an arbitrator ruled. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-26-09a.html 2009-03-26 The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota has approved as final a proposed settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against The Star Tribune Company for more than $300,000 and significant remedial relief, the EEOC announced today. The suit was filed on behalf of female employees at the plant which produces The Star Tribune newspaper, one of the nation's largest papers. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-26-09.html 2009-03-26 Framingham, Mass.-based TJX Companies, Inc., doing business as Marshalls, a discount retail store chain, will pay $110,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-25-09.html 2009-03-25 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has sued Mike Hooks, Inc. for racial discrimination, harassment and retaliatory discharge. Mike Hooks is a civil engineering, construction and dredging company headquartered in Westlake, La., with a work force of about 275 employees. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-25-09a.html 2009-03-25 Judge Harold Baer of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York gave final approval to a sweeping consent decree between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and B & H Foto and Electronics Corp. (B & H), the federal agency announced today. The decree resolves a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC on behalf of 149 Hispanic warehouse workers at one of the largest retail sellers of photographic, computer and electronic equipment in the New York metropolitan area. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-24-09.html 2009-03-24 Qualex, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak, will pay $272,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The lawsuit, filed in May 2008 in federal court in Connecticut, alleged that Qualex, a photo processing company, and its parent company, Eastman Kodak, violated federal law by targeting older workers for termination through a reduction in force (RIF). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-24-09a.html 2009-03-24 Adelphi University of Garden City, N.Y., one of the largest universities on Long Island, has agreed to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for more than $300,000 and significant remedial relief, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Adelphi paid a group of women professors less than male professors performing the same work. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-24-09b.html 2009-03-24 An Albuquerque-based McDonald's restaurant franchise will pay $115,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of two young female employees, including a teenager, the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-24-09c.html 2009-03-24 The Alpha Group of Delaware, Inc., a non-profit Ohio corporation located in Delaware, Ohio, will pay $160,000 to settle a sex-based harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced today. The EEOC had charged that Alpha Group of Delaware, which provides employment, rehabilitation and adult day support services, subjected female workers to a hostile work environment and then retaliated against a high-ranking female executive who had complained about the harassment against women. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-23-09.html 2009-03-23 MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, L.L.C., a Detroit securities investment firm, has agreed to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that MayfieldGentry violated Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 when it fired an employee because of her pregnancy. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-20-09a.html 2009-03-20 A Houston-area surgical center will pay $290,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that First Street Surgical Center, L.P. and First Surgical Partners, LLC subjected several female workers at their Bellaire, Texas, facility to a sexually hostile work environment and that First Street retaliated against women who complained about the unlawful conduct. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-20-09.html 2009-03-20 The operators of an assisted living facility in Mayfield Village will pay $75,000 and provide remedial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-17-09.html 2009-03-17 A national denture provider, Affordable Care, Inc., violated federal law when its affiliated dentist, Nelson Wood, racially and sexually harassed two female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-17-09a.html 2009-03-17 United Airlines has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the Chicago-based company's overtime policy violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. According to the EEOC's suit and settlement (CV 09 0784 EMC) filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California, United will pay $850,000 to a class of employees with disabilities and has agreed not to enforce such a policy in the future. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-16-09.html 2009-03-12 A Nashville Waffle House restaurant has been ordered to allow unsecured claims in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy action totaling $45,000 for several women who the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims the company subjected to a sexually hostile work environment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-16-09a.html 2009-03-12 Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. has agreed to pay $37,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Verizon fired Senior Field Clerk Lissa Hannan about 10 days after she complained about perceived sexual harassment by a male contractor. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-16-09b.html 2009-03-12 A Los Angeles-based insurance company that services policyholders in 12 states violated federal law by demoting an employee for opposing sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-16-09c.html 2009-03-12 Elks Lodge No. 954 in Jerseyville, Ill., violated federal law by sexually harassing three female bartenders and then taking reprisals against them when they com­plained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-12-09a.html 2009-03-12 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit against Austin Foam Plastics, Inc., a pro­ducer and distributor of corrugated box and cushion packaging. The EEOC charged the company with racial harassment, sexual harassment and unlawful retaliation. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-12-09.html 2009-03-12 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that workplace discrimination charge filings with the federal agency nationwide soared to an unprecedented level of 95,402 during Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, which ended Sept. 30. This level is a 15 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. The FY 2008 enforcement and litigation statistics, which include trend data, are available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/enforcement.html. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-11-09.html 2009-03-11 The corporate owner of several restaurants in three states will pay $457,500 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that N-W Ventures, LLC in Las Vegas subjected a class of African American employees to discrimination, including racial harassment and retaliation. N-W Ventures owns several bars, steakhouses and lounges in Las Vegas, Chicago and Dallas. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-11-09b.html 2009-03-11 The Gillette location of the HD Supply wholesale distributor chain violated federal law by subjecting a female employee to a hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. According to company information, HD Supply is a leading nationwide wholesale supplier of building materials and has over 2,800 employees nationwide. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-11-09a.html 2009-03-11 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Wheeler Construction, Inc., a Phoenix-based construction company, has agreed to settle a national origin harassment lawsuit for $325,000 and other relief on behalf of Mexican workers. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-10-09.html 2009-03-09 A Lordstown, Ohio-based automotive parts company will pay $27,500 and furnish remedial relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-10-09a.html 2009-03-10 Basic Energy Services, L.P. has agreed to pay $250,000 and consented to substantial injunctive relief to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged in its suit that the Midland, Texas-based company, a major oil well servicing contractor, had discriminated against a former field attendant because of her sex and then fired her because she complained about a discriminatory promotion denial and sexual harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-9-09b.html 2009-03-9 Burger King Corporation will pay $85,000 and furnish significant non-monetary relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that a female employee of the Clemmons, N.C., Burger King was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment when she was 18-years-old. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-9-09a.html 2009-03-09 Advance Stores Company, Inc., doing business as Advance Auto Parts, will pay $50,000 and provide other affirmative relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-9-09.html 2009-03-09 YRC Inc. ("YRC"), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") today announced an agreement providing for an expanded recruitment program that both the federal agency and America's largest over-the-road trucking company expect will increase the diversity of YRC's truck driving and dock employees' workforce. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-5-09.html 2009-03-05 Shopper's Vineyard, a wine and liquor store in Clifton, N.J., agreed to pay $60,000 and provide substantial injunctive relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-4-09a.html 2009-03-04 A Phoenix, Md., horse farm will pay $180,000 and furnish substantial remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/3-4-09.html 2009-03-04 A Maryland athletic club will pay $161,000 and furnish other substantial relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-26-09.html 2009-02-26 Ashland, Inc., an international chemical giant, and its subsidiary Valvoline, violated federal law when it fired a 52-year-old manager because of his age, according to a lawsuit filed today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-25-09a.html 2009-02-25 Embarking on an historic new area of jurisdiction, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today presented a Notice of Proposed Rule Making implementing employment provisions of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), and urged public comment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-25-09.html 2009-02-25 A federal court in Peoria, Ill., decided today that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) could not be blocked from continuing its pursuit of relief on behalf of a disabled sales manager employee of Autozone, Inc. because the employee had applied for and obtained Social Security disability benefits. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-23-09a.html 2009-02-23 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public meeting on the subject of genetic discrimination at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time) Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the agency's new headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-23-09.html 2009-02-23 Spartan Aeronautics College will pay $32,500 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-19-09.html 2009-02-19 Glacier Northwest Inc. has agreed to pay $20,000 in back wages to two women to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to company information, Glacier Northwest is the largest supplier of ready mixed concrete, sand, gravel, rock, cement and building materials in the Pacific Northwest. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-18-09.html 2009-02-18 Robertson Sanitation, a Phoenix-based trash hauling, recycling and disposal company that operates in Georgia, will pay $475,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-17-09.html 2009-02-17 Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC will pay more than $75,000 to settle sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuits brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and former GP-Gypsum employee Tina Hammer, the EEOC announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-12-09b.html 2009-02-12 J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. will pay $50,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-12-09.html 2009-02-12 Crick Pictures, L.L.C., and Mandate Pictures, L.L.C., will pay $75,000 to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC's suit had charged that movie production companies Crick and Mandate refused to hire a pregnant job applicant, Cynthia Castillo-Hill, for a position as an extras casting assistant after they learned that she was expecting a baby. Castillo-Hill sought work on the film Stranger Than Fiction, which stars Will Ferrell. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-12-09a.html 2009-02-12 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Division on Civil Rights, today launched a new partnership to educate young people and employers about their respective rights and responsibilities under federal and state laws preventing discrimination in the workplace. A key aspect of the public education campaign is the placement of Youth@Work posters on New Jersey area transit buses. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-11-09.html 2009-02-11 Murphy Ford Inc., doing business as Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc., a car dealership located in Chester, Pa., will pay $244,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced today. The EEOC had charged that Murphy Ford sexually harassed three female employees and fired one woman for complaining about the unlawful harassment. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-11-09a.html 2009-02-11 Valley Isle Motors, Ltd., a car dealership in Maui, unlawfully discriminated against an employee by failing to hire him for a salesperson position because of a perceived mental disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-10-09.html 2009-02-10 Union Pacific Railroad will pay $75,000 and furnish significant relief measures to settle a sex discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-3-09.html 2009-02-03 Ronald S. Cooper, General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will return to private law practice after two-and-one-half years leading the agency's litigation program. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/2-2-09.html 2009-02-02 Hailing a victory for working women and all victims of pay discrimination, Stuart J. Ishimaru, the newly designated Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today congratulates Congress and President Obama on the final passage and enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The Act reinstates the EEOC's longstanding position on the timeliness of filing pay discrimination charges, a position that had been overturned by the Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-29-09.html 2009-01-29 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in a decision by Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, Friday ordered a District Court to enforce a subpoena issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The court ruled that the EEOC had the authority to refuse to allow an individual to withdraw a charge of discrimination, and, therefore, to enforce a subpoena against an employer and to pursue an investigation of discrimination by that employer, Watkins Motor Lines, Inc. Watkins had entered into a private settlement agreement with a rejected job applicant who had filed the charge of discrimination which gave rise to the EEOC investigation. EEOC v. Watkins Motor Lines, Inc, (7th Cir. No. 08-2483, C.J. Easterbrook, 1/23/2009). http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-26-09.html 2009-01-26 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Barack Obama has appointed Stuart J. Ishimaru as Acting Chairman of the EEOC and Christine M. Griffin as Acting Vice Chair. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-23-09.html 2009-01-23 An interstate trucking firm has agreed to pay $2.43 million and provide other remedial relief to a class of women to settle a major sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-22-09.html 2001-01-22 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a comprehensive report to Chair Naomi C. Earp from the Federal Hispanic Work Group. The report contains an extensive number of practical recommendations that address a broad array of contemporary federal sector employment issues, including hiring, leadership development and retention. The full report, entitled Report on the Hispanic Employment Challenge in the Federal Government, is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-14-09.html 2001-01-14 A Chicago dental practice will pay $462,500 to settle a class sexual and religious harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-13-09.html 2001-01-13 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a comprehensive report prepared by the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Work Group containing findings and a series of practical recommendations for EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp's consideration. These recommendations address AAPI issues related to federal sector employment, special emphasis programs and the complaints process. The full report, entitled Report to the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-9-09.html 2001-01-09 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Merrill Lynch, the international financial services firm, has agreed to pay $1,550,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act on behalf of an Iranian Muslim former worker who was fired due to his religion and national origin. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-31-08a.html 2008-12-31 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a federal appeals court has declined to review a jury verdict in an EEOC religious discrimination case against telecommunications giant AT&T. The decision by the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the jury finding that AT&T unlawfully discriminated against two customer service technicians who were fired after attending a Jehovah's Witnesses convention. The lower court's award of $756,000 in damages to the discrimination victims has thus been upheld also. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-31-08.html 2008-12-31 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (Cracker Barrel) today announced the signing of a Universal Agreement to Mediate (UAM) to informally resolve workplace disputes through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) prior to an EEOC investigation or potential litigation. The UAM applies to 56 Cracker Barrel establishments throughout Florida. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-18-08.html 2008-12-18 Fred Meyer Stores, Inc. (Fred Meyer) will pay $485,000 to three female victims of sexual harassment and retaliation to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the EEOC announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-11-08a.html 2008-12-11 The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)today co-hosted a meeting of the Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council Training Academy focusing on how agencies can provide assistance to Americans with disabilities who want to join the Federal Government. Presentations were made from four agencies, including OPM, EEOC, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Veterans Affairs. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-11-08.html 2008-12-11 Kovacevich 5 Farms, a Tulare County grower of table grapes, has agreed to pay $1,680,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the company refused to hire women, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-3-08.html 2008-12-03 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has resolved its pattern or practice sex discrimination lawsuit against LA Weight Loss Centers, Inc., (renamed Pure Weight Loss, Inc., in early 2007), for $20 million and other significant relief. http://www.eeoc.gov/press/12-2-08.html 2008-12-02