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MIAMI – Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) agreed to conciliate a sexual hostile work environment and retaliation charge involving two employees at an Orlando KFC location with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

During the EEOC’s charge investigation, the agency found reasonable cause to believe KFC violated federal law by subjecting an employee to a sexually hostile work environment and then firing her in January 2022 in retaliation for

MIAMI – The Miami District of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) successfully conciliated two discrimination charges on behalf of pregnant women, the federal agency announced today.

The first charge, against Brandt Information Services, Inc., a technology solutions company based in Tallahassee, Florida, claimed the company terminated a pregnant employee in November 2023 after she requested two and a half months of unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

CHICAGO— Advocate Aurora Health, an Illinois-based hospital system, violated federal law when it refused to accommodate a nurse’s religious beliefs and fired her for failing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged that in 2021, Advocate Health implemented a policy mandating that all employees receive a COVID-19 vaccination unless they were granted an exemption because of their religious beliefs. A

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., sellers of timeshare programs for hotels and vacation clubs, agreed to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $175,000 and significant non-monetary relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that management at Marriott Vacations Worldwide and Marriott Ownership Resorts initially provided a religious accommodation for a Seventh-Day Adventist employee which allowed her

CHICAGO – Anthony Roofing Tecta America LLC and Tecta America Corporation, roofing services providers in Illinois and nationwide, violated federal law when they subjected African American and female employees of their Aurora, Illinois location to race and sex harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, one of Anthony Roofing’s vice presidents racially harassed an employee, which included repeatedly calling the employee the N-word

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A.W. Farrell & Son, Inc., part of a group of related commercial roofing companies operating in New York and Pennsylvania, violated federal law when its failure to address sexual harassment of a journeyman roofer led him to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the roofer’s supervisor subjected him to months of unwelcome comments and incidents of physical contact on

CHICAGO —The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that following an investigation, the agency and Jewel Food Stores, Inc and American Drug Stores LLC (Jewel-Osco) entered into a voluntary, good-faith agreement in which Jewel-Osco agreed to pay $1.95 million in monetary relief to a group of affected individuals and to provide other non-monetary relief such as state-of-the-art disability training for management and policy revisions.

The agreement resolves charges filed with the EEOC alleging

MIAMI – Renovation Flooring, LLC and its parent company, Payfin Enterprises, LLC, located in Miramar Beach, Florida, violated federal law when its owner and CEO sexually harassed multiple female employees and then retaliated against his executive assistant when she refused to submit to his sexual advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) charged in a federal lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the owner subjected his executive assistant and other female employees at

MIAMI – Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida, LLC, which operates National, Enterprise and Alamo car rental services in Florida, will pay $1.8 million and provide significant non-monetary relief to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that Enterprise failed to hire candidates aged 40 or older for its management trainee position from at least 2019 to the present. While approximately 15%

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – iPro Dental Laboratory, Inc., a Fort Lauderdale manufacturer of dental restoration products used by dental practices nationwide, violated federal law when it fired a recently hired employee because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, iPro Dental hired a woman in January 2023, describing her as “perfect” for the position of office assistant at its Fort Lauderdale

CHICAGO – Sunnybrook Union, a labor union representing teachers and educational support staff in the Sunnybrook School District in Lansing, Illinois, will pay $110,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a black man who worked as a custodian for Sunnybrook School District 171, was denied a promotion on the base of his

CHICAGO – Mercyhealth, a health care system operating hospitals and clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin, agreed to pay more than $1 million in monetary relief to a class of employees and has offered to reinstate employees that it terminated for refusing to comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine policy.  The settlement follows an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The agency’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe that Mercyhealth discriminated against employees

CHICAGO – Silver Cross Hospital, based in New Lenox, Illinois, violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees who requested to be exempt from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine because of religious and disability reasons, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two lawsuits filed today.

One employee, who worked in the hospital’s lab, requested a religious accommodation because taking the COVID-19 vaccine conflicted with her religious beliefs and

MINNEAPOLIS — The Mayo Clinic, which operates hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, violated federal law when it refused to grant a security guard’s request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, and instead threatened to fire the employee, effectively forcing him to receive the vaccine and violate his conscience and religious beliefs to save his job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According

CHICAGO – Omni Hotels Management Corporation, an international hotel chain company headquartered in Dallas, violated federal law at its Michigan Avenue location in Chicago when it discriminated against an employee by denying his request to not work on Sundays due to his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The suit also alleged that Omni retaliated against the employee for requesting an accommodation by substantially reducing his hours

MIAMI – Waste Pro of Florida agreed to pay $1.4 million and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Waste Pro subjected 26 black and/or Haitian American workers to frequent, severe harassment because of their race and national origin. Black sanitation workers in Jacksonville were often called by horrific racial

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — QSR Pita USA Inc., which manages Pita Pit restaurants, violated federal law when it fired an employee of the Pita Pit in Sioux Falls after she disclosed her pregnancy and request for an accommodation for pregnancy-related nausea, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee informed her employer of her pregnancy and requested to continue working from home and

CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed an action in federal court to enforce a subpoena that it issued during its investigation into claims that Mauser Packaging Solutions engaged in illegal hiring practices, including limiting, segregating, or classifying applicants by race, national origin, or sex for various Mauser facilities, primarily in the Chicagoland area.

Mauser is an international manufacturer of rigid packaging, headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois

MINNEAPOLIS – The St. Cloud Area Family YMCA will pay $140,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged in its suit that the St. Cloud Area Family YMCA subjected female employees, including two teenagers, to sexual harassment by one of its managers. The manager repeatedly propositioned one of the employees for sex, made unwelcome sexual

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., which sell vacation timeshare programs for hotels and vacation clubs, violated federal law when they failed to accommodate an employee’s request not to work Saturdays so she could observe Sabbath, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, management at Marriott Vacations Worldwide and Marriott Ownership Resorts initially allowed an employee, who is

MIAMI – Three Florida construction parts and auto mechanic companies have agreed to pay $215,699 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building Products, LLC, subjected Black and Hispanic employees to racial slurs, including supervisors calling employees the “N-word,” “lazy spic,”

WEST FARGO, N.D. – Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Mail Hauler Trucking fired an employee because of his disability and/or because the company regarded him as disabled. The employee has a physical

CHICAGO – Alliance Ground International, Inc. (AGI), a Miami-based air cargo and logistics company, will pay $70,000 and provide additional relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, AGI refused to hire a qualified deaf applicant because of his disability and failed to consider any reasonable workplace accommodations. The applicant, who sought a mail agent position at