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ATLANTA – Lubin Logistics Company, which operates as a small package delivery contractor for the international shipping brand FedEx, will pay $20,000 and take remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged Lubin Logistics with firing a delivery driver because of his lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause pain and inflammation throughout the body. Approximately two weeks

PHOENIX — Bell Road Tire and Auto LLC, doing business as Big O Tires, a tire company in Glendale, Arizona, will pay $64,500 and implement corrective measures to settle a disability discrimination case,  the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

An investigation by the EEOC’s Albuquerque Area Office found reasonable cause to believe that Bell Road Tire and Auto violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by enforcing a 100% return-to-work policy, failing

VALLEJO, Calif. – MedMark Treatment Centers, a subsidiary of BayMark Health Services which provides treatment for opioid addiction and substance use disorders, agreed to provide $55,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, a counselor at MedMark’s treatment center in Vallejo, California, requested disability accommodations to return to work after an extended medical leave. The EEOC’s investigation found

DALLAS – Property management companies Castle Hills Master Association Inc., Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the suit, the companies terminated a pregnant resident coordinator who was diagnosed with placenta previa, a pregnancy-related disability. After the employee was hospitalized and prescribed bedrest

HOUSTON – Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants in ten states and multiple locations in the Houston area, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to sex-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, the employee was harassed by her immediate supervisor after she attempted to break off their personal

ATLANTA – C.W., Inc., which does business as CPG Staffing, and Executive Personnel Group, LLC, sister staffing companies that assign employees to construction industry clients, illegally discriminated against a job applicant when they rescinded his job offer in Hazlehurst, Georgia, because they regarded him as having a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, CPG Staffing and Executive Personnel rescinded a welding applicant’s

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Enforge, LLC, a Michigan-based automotive parts company conducting business in North Carolina, will pay $35,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee was subjected to unwelcome sexual comments and touching by multiple male co-workers at the company’s Albemarle, North Carolina plant between August and October

WASHINGTON – Alto Experience, Inc., a ride hailing company that currently operates in Texas, Florida, and California, and previously operated in the District of Columbia and Virginia, violated federal law when it denied reasonable accommodations and employment to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who applied to work as personal drivers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, Alto refused to hire qualified deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals

ATLANTA – Total Systems Services, LLC, a global payments processing company based in Columbus, Georgia, will pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that from May through August 2020, a customer service representative with a disability who worked in a Total Systems call center repeatedly requested remote work as a reasonable accommodation because of her high-risk

BALTIMORE – Verizon Maryland, LLC, will pay $115,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a management employee who suffered from hypertension asked his manager for a change to a field position or to an alternate management position to accommodate his disability. There was an opening for a field position which the employee

HOUSTON – VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, VibraLife hired an employee with a sleep disorder for a night shift position. The job posting required the selected candidate to work 36 hours per week in three 12-hour shifts

WASHINGTON – Partnering with Tribal Employment Rights Offices (TERO) directors from the Nez Perce Tribe and Lummi Nation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the release of new public service announcements in full-length, 60 second, 30 second, and 15 second video and downloadable audio formats to help educate Native Americans and Alaska Natives about their employment rights.

Most workers and job seekers in the U.S., including Native Americans and

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Cinergy Entertainment Group, Inc., a Texas corporation operating multiple cinema and entertainment centers around the country, will pay $137,000 and provide other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2023, a former employee re-applied to work for Cinergy, but a company vice president told her she was not eligible for rehire because she

CLARKSTON, Mich. – Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC said the harassment included repeated misgendering, deadnaming (using a name a person no longer uses against their wishes) and publicizing his birth name without consent.

According to the lawsuit, Asher

DETROIT – Formel D USA, Inc., an automotive quality control company with locations in Michigan, Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee and South Carolina, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee was sexually harassed by her male supervisor shortly after being hired. The harassment involved constant unwanted sexual advances, unwanted

DENVER – Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Company, a recreational gear company headquartered in Utah with employees throughout the United States, violated federal law when it fired an employee because he complained about age discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee complained multiple times to human resources and management about age discrimination during an organizational restructuring. During the reorganization, the company

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – LM Wind Power, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of wind turbine blades, has agreed to pay $125,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Black employee’s managers and co-workers subjected him to pervasive racial harassment, including racial slurs and insults, and racially charged threats of

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Catalyst Family Inc., a non-profit company that operates child development centers in various locations in California, has agreed to provide almost $150,000 to a former employee and injunctive relief following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s investigation, the part-time employee worked for Catalyst Family for about two years when he requested an accommodation for his intellectual and cognitive disabilities

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Cruz Construction Co., Inc., agreed to provide $56,000 and injunctive relief to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s investigation, the company fired an administrative assistant in July 2023, two days after she requested a reasonable accommodation for a disability.

Firing an employee because she asserted her right to ask for accommodation violated the Americans with

DENVER – Nature’s Herb and Wellness Center, doing business as High Plainz Strains, a Colorado marijuana retailer with seven retail stores, will pay $95,000 to settle a disability and retaliation discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Nature’s Herbs failed to reasonably accommodate a budtender’s disabilities after she disclosed her disabilities to her manager and requested accommodation. When the employee

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,”

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a perspective today on a key federal directive titled, “Twenty Years of the EEOC’s Management Directive 715.”

The EEOC issued Management Directive 715 (MD-715) on Oct. 1, 2003 to help federal agencies identify and remove barriers to equal employment opportunity (EEO). MD-715 introduced six essential elements to establish and maintain a model EEO program which “ensures that all employees and applicants for employment

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Operators of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities Country Club Retirement Center V, LLC, Holland Management, Inc., and Holland Management HZ, LLC, violated federal laws when they discriminated and retaliated against a former nursing aide, a disabled veteran, and engaged in classwide discrimination and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, the companies discriminated and retaliated against a female veteran who

CLEVELAND – Glunt Industries, Inc. and Merit Capital Partners IV, LLC violated federal law when they engaged in classwide sex discrimination against women by failing to hire them for production jobs and discriminated against their former human resources director and other female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to Glunt’s website, Glunt Industries, Inc. is the most complete large-scale fabricating and machining operation in the United