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LAS VEGAS – Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc., owner and operator of a chain of gambling parlors and hotel casino and resort facilities, including Laughlin River Lodge Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, will pay $1.2 million and implement other remedies to settle a sexual harassment and constructive discharge 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 2018, male and female

OKLAHOMA CITY — Yellowhouse Machinery Co., operator of construction and heavy equipment dealerships across Texas and Oklahoma, violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation for an employee with a disability at its McAlester, Oklahoma dealership, ultimately forcing her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, Yellowhouse employed a receptionist who suffers from debilitating chronic migraines triggered by prolonged exposure

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company, a North Carolina-based soft drink company with a facility in Colfax, North Carolina, violated federal law when it required an employee to undergo a medical examination and discharged her because of a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, a former Cheerwine employee took medication for her disability, which had a side effect of deterioration in her

LAS VEGAS – Aria Resort and Casino, LLC, and the Luxor Resort and Casino, LLC, resolved charges of religious discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The charges filed with the EEOC alleged that Aria and Luxor denied employees religious accommodations to the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies. The EEOC investigated the allegations and found reasonable cause to believe both resorts violated Title VII of the Civil

LAS VEGAS – Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC and Venetian Las Vegas Marketing, Inc. (collectively doing business as “The Venetian Resort Las Vegas”), a hotel and casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip, will pay $850,000 and implement significant policy changes via a three-year consent decree to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that the Venetian Resort

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is inviting male job applicants who were not hired by Kickback Jack’s restaurants in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to contact the federal agency for possible inclusion in a sex discrimination case, the federal agency announced today.

On Sept. 25, 2024, the EEOC filed a lawsuit in federal court in Greensboro, N.C. against Battleground Restaurants, Inc., and Battleground Restaurant Group, Inc., doing business as Kickback

LAS VEGAS – La Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU. alienta a las víctimas o testigos de acoso sexual a trabajadoras y discriminación y/o acoso a trabajadores homosexuales y lesbianas en el restaurante Mariscos El Puerto y el bar La Catrina en Las Vegas a presentarse y denunciar sus experiencias a la agencia federal en relación con las demandas de la EEOC contra las dos empresas. 

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages victims of or witnesses to sexual harassment of female workers and discrimination and/or harassment of gay and lesbian workers at Mariscos El Puerto restaurant and La Catrina bar in Las Vegas to come forward and report their experiences to the federal agency in connection with the EEOC’s lawsuits against the two companies.

On Aug. 24, 2023, the EEOC filed two lawsuits in federal court

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Battleground Restaurants, Inc., and Battleground Restaurant Group, Inc., North Carolina-based corporations that operate Kickback Jack’s restaurants, violated federal law when they refused to hire male applicants for non-managerial front of house positions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, Battleground had, and continues to have, a policy or practice of intentionally failing to hire male applicants for front-of-house positions because of their

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf job applicant because of his disability.

According to the lawsuit filed today, the job applicant called Wilson Logistics seeking work as a truck driver. He possessed a commercial driver’s license, had relevant experience and had been granted an exemption from regulatory

ST. LOUIS – Dollar General Stores will pay $295,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) age discrimination, harassment, and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, from July 2016 until January 2018, a newly hired Dollar General regional director in Oklahoma harassed district managers who were in their 50s and older by calling them “grumpy old men,” telling them he was building “a millennial

GREENSBORO, N.C. – PepsiCo Beverage Sales, LLC violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to and fired a blind employee in its North Carolina call center, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, PepsiCo hired a blind employee as a customer care advocate for its Winston-Salem call center. The employee notified PepsiCo that he was blind and requested a reasonable

LAS VEGAS – La Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU. anunció esta semana cuatro demandas contra restaurantes locales en el área de Las Vegas y el sur de Nevada.

Las demandas presentadas contra Nevada Restaurant Services Inc, Bouchon y Mariscos El Puerto y La Catrina alegan acoso sexual hacia empleados por parte de propietarios, supervisores y gerentes, compañeros de trabajo y/o clientes. Las cuatro demandas incluyeron acusaciones

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced four lawsuits against local restaurants in the Las Vegas and Southern Nevada area this week.

Lawsuits filed against Nevada Restaurant Services Inc, Bouchon, and Mariscos El Puerto and La Catrina allege sexual harassment towards employees by owners, supervisors and management, co-workers, and/or customers. The four lawsuits included allegations raised by workers throughout the hospitality industry, from housekeepers in hotels to waitstaff in both high-end

LAS VEGAS – Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc., the owner and operator of a chain of gambling parlors and hotel casino and resort facilities, which includes the Laughlin River Lodge Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, violated federal law when it failed to prevent and correct ongoing sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, Nevada Restaurant Services

LAS VEGAS — Mariscos El Puerto, Inc. y La Catrina, LLC, un restaurante y bar con sede en Las Vegas, violaron la ley federal cuando sus propietarios, gerentes, supervisores, compañeros de trabajo y clientes sometieron a sus trabajadoras a acoso sexual y sometieron a trabajadores homosexuales y lesbianas a discriminación y acoso, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU. en dos demandas separadas presentadas hoy.

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LAS VEGAS — Mariscos El Puerto, Inc. and La Catrina, LLC, a restaurant and bar based in Las Vegas, violated federal law when its owners, managers, supervisors, co-workers, and customers subjected female workers to sexual harassment and subjected gay and lesbian workers to discrimination and harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two separate lawsuits filed today.                               

LAS VEGAS – KVP, LP, doing business as Bouchon Restaurant, and KRM, Inc, doing business as Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, together operate a restaurant chain including restaurants such as French Laundry, Bouchon Bistro, and Bouchon Bakery, violated federal law by subjecting employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, managers at Bouchon Las Vegas sexually harassed female

LAS VEGAS – AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC (AMTCR), a Kingman, Arizona headquartered franchise owner operating approximately 18 McDonald’s restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California, will pay $1,997,500 to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, since at least 2017, AMTCR knew about sexual harassment and allowed it to continue, unabated, by supervisors, managers, and coworkers

LAS VEGAS - Focus Plumbing, LLC acordó pagar $500,000 y junto con Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, y Focus Framing, Door, & Trim, LLC, acordaron proporcionar una amplia medida cautelar para resolver una demanda de acoso sexual presentada por la Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC), anunció hoy la agencia federal.

La EEOC alegó que, desde 2017, Focus sometió a un grupo

LAS VEGAS – Focus Plumbing, LLC agreed to pay $500,000 and along with Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door, & Trim, LLC, agreed to furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC alleged that since 2017, Focus subjected a class of monolingual Spanish-speaking female employees to a hostile work

LAS VEGAS – SBEEG Holdings, LLC dba Hyde Bellagio, a former Las Vegas night club, and Spoonful Management, LV LLC, will pay $1 million and will provide other injunctive relief to settle a federal charge of sexual harassment filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to a charge filed January 2017, Hyde Bellagio subjected female applicants and employees to sexual harassment and created a hostile work environment

LAS VEGAS – AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC violated federal law by allowing a class of male and female workers to be subjected to egregious sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. Headquartered in Kingman, Ariz., AMTCR is a franchise owner currently operating approximately 22 McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California.

According to the lawsuit, the federal agency alleges that since at

LAS VEGAS –  Focus Plumbing, LLC, Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door & Trim (collectively dba “Focus Companies Group of Nevada”) violated federal law by allowing a class of female workers to be subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2017, Focus allowed a class of female workers