Sala de prensa

BALTIMORE – Roland Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, a residential health care facility in Baltimore City, and Atlas Healthcare, the management company operating Roland Park RHC, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a pregnant employee and firing her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, a certified nursing assistant told Roland Park RHC she was temporarily restricted by her

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – Kurt Bluemel, Inc., a plant nursery in Baldwin, Maryland, will pay $40,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a pregnant worker who had been employed by the company since 2017 requested maternity leave in September 2023, with the expectation that she would return to work after giving

BALTIMORE – Kurt Bluemel, a Baltimore County commercial nursery, failed to accommodate a pregnant worker who needed leave and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

According to the lawsuit, the pregnant worker requested maternity leave with the expectation that she would resume employment after giving birth. When she attempted to return to work, she was told that no work was available. However, the employer hired

BALTIMORE – Savage River Lodge, LLC and Little Crossings, LLC, doing business as Fronterra Resources (collectively referred to as Savage River Lodge), will pay $150,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle federal charges that they discriminated against an employee because of her pregnancy and then fired her.

The Frostburg, Maryland business offers cabins for rent and operates a restaurant for lodge guests, according to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

BALTIMORE – Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOTSHA), the agency that oversees the state highways throughout Maryland, will pay $40,000 to settle an equal pay lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, for several years up to the present, MDOTSHA paid a male district community liaison (DCL) lower wages than it paid to his female counterparts, even though the male

BALTIMORE – Savage River Lodge, LLC, and Little Crossings, LLC, doing business as Fronterra Resources, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee because of her disabilities, including pregnancy-related disabilities, and retaliated against her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.  

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the guest services representative, who worked for Savage River Lodge in Frostburg, Maryland, was disabled and pregnant when Savage River Lodge failed

BALTIMORE -- Mechanical Design Systems, Inc. (MDS), an HVAC design and installation services company with offices in Clinton, Maryland and operating in the greater Washington, DC metro area, violated civil rights law by paying female Project Managers less than male Project Managers on the basis of sex the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, female Project Managers were paid less than male colleagues for

BALTIMORE – The Maryland Department of Health’s Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, a state residential psychiatric care center, has been violating federal law by paying its sole male Therapeutic Recreator more than all four female Therapeutic Recreators at the same facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the Finan Center hired the male to a subordinate position and promoted him noncompetitively three