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ATLANTA – Treehouse Foods, Inc. / Treehouse Foods Private Brands, Inc., a food products manufacturer in Forest Park, Ga., will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Treehouse Foods denied its 19-year employee’s request for intermittent unpaid leave as an accommodation to receive treatment for her disabilities. Instead, the EEOC said, the company failed to

ATLANTA – Peachstate Health Management, LLC, doing business as AEON Global Health, a Georgia certified reference clinical laboratory in Gainesville, Ga., violated federal law by subjecting an African American female client services employee to a race- and sex-based hostile work environment and firing her for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a supervisor subjected one of its Black female

DETROIT – Menards, Inc., which operates over 300 home improvement stores, will pay $25,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that a female employee at a Menards store in Wixom, Mich., complained that the assistant hardware department manager was sending her pornographic video clips and photos via text message. She showed some of the messages to another assistant

SYLVANIA, OH—Charter Senior Living, LLC, which operates living communities for seniors, has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for discharging an employee because she has nerve damage. The employee worked at Charter Senior Living Oak Openings in Sylvania, Ohio, where there are approximately 60 employees.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Charter Senior Living violated the ADA by removing one of its caregivers from the schedule because she has nerve damage in her

DETROIT – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital, will pay a total of $115,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, MDHHS violated federal law by declining to hire an applicant because of her age. The then 56-year-old applicant applied to be a clinical

ATLANTA – Gentiva Health Services, doing business as Kindred at Home, a provider of home health services including nursing and rehabilitation assistance, will pay $160,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Kindred learned that one of its employees suffered from Morton’s neuroma and capsulitis of the metatarsophalangeal joints of both feet. The employee initially asked to

ATLANTA – Treehouse Foods, Inc. / Treehouse Foods Private Brands, Inc., a food products manufacturer, violated federal law when it denied a machine operator in its Forest Park bakery a reason­able accommodation for her physical disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Treehouse Foods denied its 19-year employee’s request for an accommodation in the form of intermittent unpaid leave on at least

ATLANTA – The Atlanta District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC) announced today that while undergoing a full office remodeling project, it will continue to receive faxes.  This is a change from a news release issued on Dec. 18, 2020.  

Faxes to the EEOC Atlanta District Office should be sent to 404-562-6909.  The EEOC Portal is also available at https://publicportal.eeoc.gov/portal.  Additionally, relevant documents and materials may be emailed to the

ATLANTA – The Atlanta District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC) announced today that it is undergoing a full office remodeling project. The project will take several months. During this time, the office remains open, fully operational, and customer-focused, while staff continue to work remotely.

Due to the office remodeling, however, the office is unable to receive faxes effective Dec. 23, 2020. The office anticipates being able to receive faxes again around