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LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that a federal court ordered Vallarta Food Enterprises, Inc., and related companies, a supermarket chain with approximately 80 locations in Central and Southern California, to fully comply with subpoenas the agency issued in September 2024 relating to Commissioner-initiated charges.

Specifically, the charge alleged that Vallarta Supermarkets failed or refused to recruit, hire, or promote individuals based on their race (white, black, and/or Asian)

MIAMI – Waste Pro of Florida agreed to pay $1.4 million and furnish comprehensive injunctive 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.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Waste Pro subjected 26 black and/or Haitian American workers to frequent, severe harassment because of their race and national origin. Black sanitation workers in Jacksonville were often called by horrific racial

MIAMI – Three Florida construction parts and auto mechanic companies have agreed to pay $215,699 and furnish other 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.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building Products, LLC, subjected Black and Hispanic employees to racial slurs, including supervisors calling employees the “N-word,” “lazy spic,”

LOS ANGELES – Orange County-based construction company Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc. will pay $730,000 and furnish extensive injunctive relief to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that, since at least 2019, Goodsell/Wilkins’ supervisors, leads and coworkers subjected a class of male Hispanic or Latino workers to severe or pervasive harassment based on their race or national origin. Workers were referred to

MIAMI – Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building Products, LLC, construction parts and auto-mechanic companies in Hollywood, Florida, violated federal law when they subjected employees to harassment, including racial comments and derogatory remarks about national origin, and fired an employee for complaining about racist abuse from his supervisor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, a longtime supervisor at Colt Truck

MIAMI – Advance Auto Parts, an automotive parts retail chain, violated federal law when it allowed its employees and customers to subject gay and Black employees to hostile work environments based on their race and sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, employees at Advance Auto Parts refused to follow instructions from an assistant manager because she is gay, calling her derogatory names targeting

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Gardena-based laundry facility Radiant Services Corporation will pay $1.1 million and furnish extensive injunctive relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s related suit against BaronHR recently settled for $2.2 million and extensive injunctive relief remedies, bringing the total settlement to be distributed to class members to $3.3 million.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that since at least 2015, Radiant failed

LOS ANGELES –  Orange Treeidence OPCO, LLC, doing business as Riverwalk Post-Acute, Providence Group, Inc. (PGI), and Providence Administrative Consulting Services, Inc. (PACS), have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging racial harassment and retaliation, the federal agency announced today. The settlement includes the payment of $865,000 to class members and other relief.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, Riverwalk Post-Acute, a skilled nursing

TAMPA, Fla. –– Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. (APS), an asphalt paving company with offices in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Tennessee, violated federal law by subjecting 12 Black employees who had filed charges with the EEOC, and a class of other Black employees, to race-based discrimination and harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, African American employees were subjected to a hostile

LOS ANGELES -- On Sept. 13, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit in federal court against BaronHR for discriminatory employment practices based on race (Black, Asian, and white), national origin (non-Hispanic), sex (male and female), and disability. The lawsuit alleges that since at least 2015, BaronHR has failed to recruit and refer Black, Asian, and white, non-Hispanic workers for low-skill positions and has denied male and female workers certain placement

TAMPA and ORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has filed two separate race discrimination lawsuits – one against Alto Construction Co. Inc., a site development and asphalt paving construction company based in the Tampa area, and another against J.A. Croson, LLC, a plumbing and HVAC contracting company based in the Orlando area.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit against Alto, its management regularly used the N-word in front

LOS ANGELES – Orange County, California-based construction contractor Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc., violated federal law when it subjected a class of Latino employees to harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a federal lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC alleged that since at least 2019, Goodsell/Wilkins’ supervisors subjected Latino construction workers to national origin harassment which included but was not limited to: referring to them as “wetbacks” and “Home Depoteros,” mocking them if

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against the national staffing agency BaronHR, LLC and Radiant Services Corporation, a commercial laundry facility that serves the hospitality industry in Southern California, for discriminatory denial of employment based on race, national origin, and sex, the federal agency announced today

The EEOC charged that since 2015, BaronHR and Radiant failed to recruit, refer, and hire Black, Asian, and White applicants for low-skill positions

AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Ring Power Corporation, North and Central Florida's CAT-brand heavy equipment dealer, has agreed to pay $65,000 and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Ring Power hired a Black former naval technician to work at its St. Augustine location. He was the only Black technician in his department. Throughout the

TAMPA, Fla. – Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, LLC (NRP), which operates an Applebee’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill restaurant in Plant City, Florida, has agreed to pay $100,000 and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a sexual orientation and race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, two members of the restaurant’s staff verbally harassed a black employee by subjecting him to

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Lone Wolf Resources, L.L.C., an environmental remediation and construction services company based in Texas will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Lone Wolf management at the company’s Jacksonville location referred to Black employees using racial slurs. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that a Lone Wolf manager referred to a

FRESNO – Helados La Tapatia, Inc., violated federal law when they failed to hire non-Hispanic applicants for entry-level positions because of their race/national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the Fresno, California-based company favored less-qualified Hispanic job applicants over all other applicants of a different race or national origin (including black, white and Asian applicants) in entry-level positions, such as Route Sales Driver