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LOS ANGELES – Meathead Movers Inc., the largest independent moving company based in San Luis Obispo, California, agreed to pay up to $2 million for individuals who were not hired into various positions due to age or because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced today.

The company agreed to hire qualified individuals into various positions including laborers, movers, customer service agents, and other positions, committing up to $1 million annually

MILWAUKEE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) filed an action in federal court today to compel Milwaukee-based financial services provider Northwestern Mutual to produce information about the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and practices, related to the firm’s decision to deny a promotion to one of its compliance officers.

According to the EEOC’s court filing, a Northwestern Mutual employee filed a discrimination charge against the company with the EEOC in March 2025

EL PASO, Texas— Fat and Broke, Inc., doing business as Gamer Logistics, a logistics company located in El Paso with offices in Laredo, Texas, Indiana, and Mexico, violated federal law when it fired and refused to hire a class of older drivers and applicants for driver positions because of their age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, in March 2024, Gamer Logistics fired a

MINNEAPOLIS – TKO Construction Services, a staffing company that provides temporary employees for commercial, residential, restoration, heavy industrial and energy construction companies, will pay $300,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit alleged that an employee, who worked for TKO as a recruiter, was told by TKO employees that the company did not hire women

DENVER – Houston-based Noble Energy, Inc. will implement a series of anti-discrimination measures to conciliate age discrimination allegations by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The agency charged that Noble Energy practiced discriminatory discharge and layoff practices based on age. The agency’s investigation revealed the company conducted certain workforce reductions which disproportionately impacted employees aged 40 and older.

Although Noble Energy denies the allegations, the EEOC found sufficient evidence

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it filed 110 lawsuits challenging unlawful employment discrimination in fiscal year 2024, placing an emphasis on emerging issues and advancing the employment rights of underserved and vulnerable workers.  

“Litigation is only one tool in the EEOC’s toolbox for achieving its mission of preventing and remedying employment discrimination, but it is a tool we will continue to deploy strategically to maximize our impact,”

CLOVIS, N.M. – Allen Theatres, Inc., which operates a chain of movie theaters across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, violated federal law when it discriminated against its older employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, Allen Theaters discriminated against Abby Parrish, a manager at the Clovis, New Mexico location, when the president of the company forced him to retire in September 2020, and refused

TRENTON, N.J. – Hatzel & Buehler, Inc., a commercial electrical contractor with branch locations in eight states and the District of Columbia, will pay $500,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the company’s New Jersey branch, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least November 2020, the vice president of Hatzel & Buehler’s New Jersey branch engaged in age discriminatory

NEW ORLEANS – Ecoserv, LLC, an industrial cleaning company in Abbeville, Louisiana, violated federal law by engaging in a pattern or practice of refusing to hire applicants who were Black, female, or 40 years old or over, and by firing a human resources employee who opposed the discrim­inatory practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Sept. 22.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Ecoserv instructed a former human resources

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against the San Luis Obispo moving company Meathead Movers, Inc., the largest independent moving company in California, for refusing to hire people based on age, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charges that since at least 2017, Meathead Movers failed to recruit and hire applicants over 40 into moving, packing and customer service positions. Meathead maintains a pattern or practice

MINNEAPOLIS – TKO Construction Services violated federal law when it discriminated against a class of individuals by failing or refusing to hire or assign work to women, Black, or older individuals, and forced an employee to resign who refused to comply with the discriminatory hiring practices, according to a lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee worked for TKO in July 2018 as a recruiter

TRENTON, n.j. – Hatzel & Buehler, Inc., a commercial electrical contractor with branch locations in eight states and the District of Columbia, violated federal law by subjecting a class of workers aged 40 and older to discriminatory hiring and recruitment for positions in its New Jersey branch, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least November 2020, Hatzel & Buehler has

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina-based Subway franchises Bilal & Aaya Subway, Inc., H & F Subway, Inc. and L & H Subway, Inc. (Subway) violated federal law when they subjected employees to a hostile work environment, discharged Black employees and discriminated against applicants in the hiring process because of their race and color, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from October 2018 to

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will host, as part of HIRE, a virtual roundtable entitled Untapped Potential: Reimagining Equity for Workers with Gaps in Employment History to discuss challenges workers face when reentering the workforce after periods of unemployment. Speakers will highlight the barriers that caregivers, older workers, people with long-term disabilities, and formerly incarcerated individuals face when

NEW YORK – Software People, Inc., an IT support staffing agency based in Long Island, New York that contracts with local and state governmental agencies throughout the country, will institute anti-discrimination policies and provide significant training to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Software People refused to refer an applicant for a desktop support position after the applicant