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PLANO, Texas — An African American auto salesman was subjected to harassment because of his race and color by AOD Ventures, Inc., doing business as Autos of Dallas, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.       

Autos of Dallas is a Plano-based retailer of luxury vehicles. Car salesman Jonathon Sellers, who is Black, attended a December 2019 holiday party in which management called him to the front of the

NEW ORLEANS – American River Transportation Company (ARTCO), headquartered in Decatur, Ill., will pay a former employee $40,000 to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. ARTCO provides river transportation services, including barges and a shipyard, to its parent company, Archer Daniels Midland, and to third-party clients.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in 2019, a Black deckhand was subjected to racial harassment

DALLAS – Dallas-based Greenhouse Outpatient Center and its parent company, American Addiction Centers, agreed to damages of $146,613 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The Dallas rehabilitation center had granted the pregnant employee, a behavioral health technician, a 30-day leave of absence for childbirth. After the employee delivered the baby by caesarean section, which requires abdominal surgery

HOUSTON – Burrow Global Services, LLC, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will pay a former employee $50,960 to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Burrow Global provides engineering, design, and related technical services for clients in the petrochemical and refining industries.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in 2020, a senior electrical designer over age 60 was subjected to age discrimination when a much

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Security Associates, Inc., a security company doing business as Conshohocken, Pa.-based Allied Universal, has agreed to pay a uniformed security guard $110,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Allied Universal provides security services nationally and internationally.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that Allied Universal transferred a security guard at a Baton Rouge location to a more strenuous post after

HOUSTON – T&T Subsea, LLC, a Galveston marine services company, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable 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 suit, after being diagnosed with cancer, the commercial diver continued to work for T&T through his chemotherapy and radiation treatment until he took leave for surgery. When he notified T&T that he was ready

NEW ORLEANS – The former operators of a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Monroe, La., will pay $400,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The former operators of the hotel — Aimbridge Hospitality, LLC and AH 2007 Management, LP (collect­ively, Aimbridge) — are based in Plano, Tex., and manage hotels nationally and internationally.

According to the

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Awon Phie LLC, doing business as the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Corpus Christi, violated federal law when it fired a temporary employee placed by a staffing company because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company’s operations manager told an employee that she noticed her stomach, referring to her being pregnant. The company’s operations

DALLAS – Tyler, Texas-based K&L Auto Crushers violated federal law when the company denied its controller’s various requests for reasonable accommodation and then fired her while she was receiving chemotherapy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the controller immediately notified the owner of K&L when she was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer and told her the estimated length of her chemotherapy treatment