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JACKSON, Miss. – Seward and Son Planting Company, a farming operation with 22,000 acres of corn, soybeans and cotton in Louise, Mississippi, will pay $150,000 and implement policy changes via a three-year consent decree to settle a race 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, starting Dec. 1, 2020, Seward and Son began hiring immigrant agricultural workers from a

JACKSON, Miss. – Air Evac EMS, an emergency air medical transportation services company headquartered in O’Fallon, Missouri, operating more than 150 helicopter air ambulance bases across 15 states, will pay $59,000 and furnish other relief, settling a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The EEOC’s suit charged Air Evac with violating federal law when it rescinded an applicant’s job offer because of potential side effects of the applicant’s prescription

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Landmark Dodge, Inc., and Landmark South, Inc. (Landmark Dodge), the owners of automobile dealerships in Independence, Missouri and formerly in Belton, Missouri, will pay $275,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit alleged Landmark Dodge had a policy of refusing to hire women for sales jobs and men for office jobs, and that the company retaliated

KANSAS CITY, Kan.–The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) violated federal law when it denied a promotion to an employee because of her age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, KDHE passed over a seasoned employee for a Laboratory Technician II position because of her age. Despite her superior qualifications, experience and time at the department, the state instead appointed a younger

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – National restaurant chain Chipotle Services, Inc. will pay $20,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) religious harassment, retaliation, and constructive discharge lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC suit alleged that in July 2021, at a Lenexa, Kansas, Chipotle restaurant, a supervisor began harassing one of his employees because of her religion. The employee, a teenager at the time, is a devout Muslim

JACKSON, Miss. – Headquartered in Tennessee, Tractor Supply Company, the nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer with over 2,400 stores and more than 50,000 employees, has agreed to pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.                                                                  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Tractor Supply Company violated federal law when it disclosed an employee’s confidential medical information, subjected

JACKSON, Miss. – Singley Construction Company, Inc., a construction company headquartered in Columbia, Mississippi, has agreed to pay $30,000 and provide other relief to settle claims of disability discrimination and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, Singley refused to accommodate an employee with end-stage renal disease by allowing her to perform continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in a vacant office

RENTON, Wash. – CCS Facility Services, Inc. acordó en pagar y proporcionar otro alivio para resolver una queja de acoso sexual presentada ante la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU., anunció hoy la agencia. 

La conserje latina que presentó el cargo ante la EEOC alegó que sufrió comentarios sexuales, manoseos y otras conductas sexuales no deseadas por parte de su supervisor directo durante más de un año