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CHICAGO – Rural Office of Community Services Inc., a Wagner, South Dakota-based social services agency, which serves low-income families and individuals across multiple locations in South Dakota, will pay $320,000 in monetary relief to a class of affected employees to voluntarily resolve an employment discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The agreement resolves a charge filed with the EEOC alleging Rural Office of Community Services

ST. LOUIS – Outwest Express, a transportation services company, and American One Source, a professional employer organization that provides human resource services, have agreed to pay $90,000 to voluntarily resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission, the federal agency announced today. Both companies are based in El Paso, Texas.

The agreement announced today resolves a charge of discrimination filed with the EEOC alleging that a female recruiter

TUPELO, Miss. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Resourceful Environmental Services, headquartered in Ripley, Mississippi, reached a voluntary conciliation agreement to resolve a charge of discrimination filed by a former employee alleging a hostile work environment based on the employee’s sexual orientation, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC determined that Resourceful Environmental Services subjected a male employee to a hostile work environment based upon his sexual orientation and stopped returning him

INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it filed suit against Gypsum Express, Ltd., headquartered in Baldwinsville, New York, for sex discrimination in hiring, as well as retaliation and constructive discharge involving two former recruiters. Gypsum Express, Ltd. provides truck-transportation services and currently has terminals in Pennysylvania, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina and Illinois.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that since at least 2014, Gypsum

PHOENIX -- Schuff Steel Company, una empresa de fabricación y montaje de acero, violó la ley federal al acosar a los empleados afroamericanos e hispanos en su ubicación en Eloy, Arizona y tomar represalias contra ellos cuando se quejaron, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE. UU. (EEOC, por sus siglas en ingles) en una demanda presentada el 28 de septiembre del 2022.

Según la demanda de por

PHOENIX -- Schuff Steel Company, a steel fabrication and erection company, violated federal law by harassing African American and Hispanic employees at its location in Eloy, Arizona and retaliating against them when they complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed on September 28, 2022.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Schuff Steel’s Eloy plant manager regularly used racial slurs against Black and Hispanic employees, including using the N-word, as well

TOLEDO, Ohio – Pretium Packaging, LLC., a manufacturer of plastic bottles and containers, violated federal law at its Leipsic, Ohio facility by failing to promote or hire qualified females as machine operators, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Pretium maintained a discriminatory practice of not hiring or promoting females to fill machine operator positions. Female employees who expressed interest in the machine operator

INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it filed suit against Kenneth O. Lester Company, Inc., doing business as PFG Customized Distribution – Indiana (PFG Customized Distribution), headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee, for sex discrimination in hiring and job assignments at its Kendallville, Indiana warehouse.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC alleged that since 2018, PFG Customized Distribution has refused to hire female job applicants for order-selector positions because of their sex

CHICAGO – Eagle Services, an industrial and environmental cleaning service with locations in Illinois and Indiana, will pay $100,000 in monetary relief to a class of affected employees to voluntarily resolve an employment discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The agreement announced today resolves a charge filed with the EEOC alleging that Eagle Services discriminated against employees because of their race and national origin by subjecting them to harassment. Additionally

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

SEATTLE — Gig Harbor, Washington-based staffing agency SmartTalent violated federal law by repeatedly refusing to assign female workers to certain temporary jobs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

The agency is now seeking workers with information or experiences with SmartTalent’s application and assignment practices.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, SmartTalent honored requests made by some business clients to fill positions with male workers only. The EEOC

DENVER -- Chris the Crazy Trader, Inc., doing business as Christopher’s Dodge Ram in Golden, Colorado, has agreed to conciliate a discrimination charge involving failure to hire females with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC determined that Christopher Dodge Ram did not hire females for sales positions and did not keep records. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended

DALLAS – Utah-based SkyWest Airlines violated federal law by subjecting a female parts clerk to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, explicit sexual conversations and conduct were a daily feature of the work environment at the overwhelmingly male Parts and Maintenance Divisions of SkyWest’s Dallas operation. Multiple employees and at least one manager made crude sexual comments, including the suggestion

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Four national companies that jointly built and maintained oil & gas pipelines in New Mexico and Texas will pay $1,750,000 and provide other relief to settle a systemic race, national origin and sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

“No one should have to put up with insults or derogatory remarks about their race or national origin just to earn

ST LOUIS – ResourceMFG, una compañía nacional de personal especializado en manufactura, violó la ley federal cuando no refirió a una solicitante de empleo de Oklahoma porque no nació en los Estados Unidos, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE. UU. (EEOC, por sus siglas en inglés) en una demanda presentada recientemente.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, Anke Hicks, ciudadana estadounidense naturalizada nacida en Alemania, entrevistó con

ST. LOUIS – ResourceMFG, a national manufacturing specialty staffing company, violated federal law when it failed to refer an Oklahoma job applicant for employment because she was not born in the United States, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a recently filed lawsuit.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Anke Hicks, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen, interviewed with a ResourceMFG recruiter in February 2020 and was offered a position at XPO Logistics, a

MILWAUKEE – Baumann Farms LLP, una empresa agrícola importante en el centro de Wisconsin, pagará $ 180,812.50 y brindará otro alivio significativo para resolver una demanda por acoso sexual, represalias y discriminación por origen nacional presentada por la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU., anunció hoy la agencia.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, las empleadas de Baumann Farms fueron sometidas a un ambiente de trabajo hostil

MILWAUKEE – Baumann Farms LLP, a major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, will pay $180,812.50 and provide other significant relief to settle a sexual harassment, retaliation, and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, female employees at Baumann Farms were subjected to a hostile work environment and harassed by their male super­visor, who propositioned them for sex, sent them sexually

BALTIMORE – Lindsay Ford and Lindsay Ford Management Company, an automobile dealership in Wheaton, Maryland, will pay $105,000 and furnish significant injunctive relief to settle a race/national origin/sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a car salesman of South Asian descent was continuously sub­jected to race- and national origin-based harassment by the dealership’s general manager, which escalated to sexual touching

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today held a hearing which examined the severe and pervasive discrimination in the construction sector, especially against women and people of color. It also examined how to expand opportunities for historically marginalized workers in the industry.

“The construction sector has always been an important component of the American economy, as a major employer of America’s workers, a pathway to prosperity and security, and a key indicator

TAMPA, Fla. – RREMC, LLC, que opera como Denny's Restaurant, una empresa con sede en Florida y la tercera franquicia más grande de Denny's en los Estados Unidos, acordó en pagar $45,000 para resolver una demanda por discriminación a base de origen nacional presentada por la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC), anunció hoy la agencia federal.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, RREMC violó la ley

TAMPA, Fla. – RREMC, LLC, doing business as Denny’s Restaurant, a Florida-based company and the third-largest Denny’s franchisee in the United States, has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a 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, RREMC violated federal law when a Mexican employee at its Brandon, Florida restaurant was subjected to a hostile work environment based on

CLEVELAND – A federal judge has entered an opinion and order finding Detroit-head­quartered Sherwood Food Distributors, LLC in contempt of court for failing to pay its payroll tax liability in violation of the consent decree previously entered by the court to resolve the EEOC’s class sex discrimination suit against the company, the federal agency announced today.

Ruling on an EEOC Emergency Motion for Civil Contempt Sanctions, Federal District Judge Donald C. Nugent found on Feb

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – American Freight Management Company, LLC, which does business as American Freight Furniture and Mattress, will pay $5 million in monetary relief and provide job opportunities to women previously denied them, among other relief, to settle a federal nationwide sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2013, American Freight engaged in a nationwide pattern or