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SEATTLE —Spokane Valley-based HVAC contractor Air Control Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc., which does business as Air Control Heating & Electric, Inc., violated federal law when it permitted its top executive to sexually harass female employees despite being put on repeated notice of his behavior, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in federal court today.

According to the allegations in the EEOC’s suit, Air Control’s founder, owner and president

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque-AMG Specialty Hospital, LLC and Acadiana Management Group, LLC, operating AMG Specialty Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., violated federal law by subjecting a former female director of case management, Moriah Smith, to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC further alleges that AMG’s failure to remedy the hostile work environment of this employee ultimately resulted in forcing her to leave

WEIRTON, W.V. – Route 22 Sports Bar, Inc. and Crazy Mexican Restaurant & Grill, LLC, two restaurants in Weirton, W.V., subjected female workers to sexual harassment and fired a bartender for reporting it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a male owner of the two restaurants subjected a female bartender to sexual harassment, including propositioning her for sex, making sexually offensive statements

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Protocol of Amherst, Inc., doing business as Protocol Restaurant in Buffalo, will pay $90,000 and take other steps to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Paul Pelczynski, the restaurant’s owner and general manager, sexually harassed female employees by, among other things, engaging in numerous instances of inappro­priate physical contact. The EEOC charged that Protocol

BALTIMORE – Maryland-based Davis & Davis Enterprise, Inc., an employer of security guards that also operates under the name All Secure Security Company, has agreed to resolve a federal sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, Davis & Davis employs armed security guards at detention centers in Baltimore but also offers its employees occasional opportunities to work as security personnel at

BALTIMORE – Blackstone Consulting Inc, which provides environmental, facilities management and other services to clients, will pay $37,500 in monetary relief and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal national origin discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the suit, Blackstone hired a woman from El Salvador, who had limited English-speaking skills, as a part-time cleaner. Blackstone interviewed and trained her in Spanish and assigned her to work with

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