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BALTIMORE – Casino operators CBAC Borrower, LLC, doing business as Horseshoe Casino, Caesars Baltimore Management Co., LLC, and Caesars Entertainment, Inc., violated federal law when they discriminated against an employee on the basis of disability and engaged in unlawful retaliation and interference, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the companies discriminated against a man who worked as a table games dealer at their

INDIANAPOLIS – Holsum of Fort Wayne, Inc., a wholesale bakery with two locations in northern Indiana, will pay $50,000, amend workplace policies, and offer additional training to its employees 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, Holsum maintained a policy prohibiting the use of personal items in the production area. In August 2020, one of its supervisors

FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines, Inc., a domestic and international air carrier headquartered in Fort Worth, violated federal law when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation for a blind reservations representative and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, American failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee after she developed cortical blindness. The employee requested use of screen

BALTIMORE – American Multi-Cinema (AMC), a nationwide movie theatre chain, violated federal law when it forced an employee with a disability to leave his job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, AMC, at its Owings Mills, Maryland location, violated federal law when it forced a 22-year employee with cerebral palsy to quit around September 2023 after it deprived him of reasonable accommodations which would

BALTIMORE – Roland Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, a residential health care facility in Baltimore City, and Atlas Healthcare, the management company operating Roland Park RHC, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a pregnant employee and firing her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, a certified nursing assistant told Roland Park RHC she was temporarily restricted by her

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Criswell Chevrolet, Inc., an automobile dealership, will pay $30,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that Criswell Chevrolet violated federal law by refusing to allow a worker with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have a service dog with him at work, leaving him no choice but to leave his employment.

Such

BALTIMORE – Sinclair Broadcast Group, a nationwide broadcasting company, will pay $100,000 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 lawsuit, Sinclair subjected a black female employee, a financial analyst, to unlawful pay discrimination and was constructively discharged because of her race. Despite her strong work performance at the company, she was undercompensated compared to other

FORT WORTH, Texas – TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc., one of the largest crane service providers in North America, will pay $525,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, four black employees of TNT Crane were subjected to a hostile work environment by their co-workers and supervisors, including frequent use of racial slurs, open display of

INDIANAPOLIS – Bossman Tacos, LLC, doing business as Boss Man Tacos, violated federal law at its Highland, Indiana restaurant by subjecting female employees to a hostile work environment because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least November 2021, Boss Man Tacos knew its head chef and other male cooks were sexually harassing its female servers, some of whom

DETROIT – Navitas Systems, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Michigan battery manufacturer, will pay $95,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Navitas maintained a policy which required any employee returning from medical leave to be 100% free from restrictions. An employee suffered severe injuries to his left arm; his doctor temporarily restricted him from

BALTIMORE – Criswell Chevrolet, Inc., one of Maryland’s largest independent car dealership groups, violated federal law by refusing to allow a parts department worker to have a service dog at work as a reasonable accommodation for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from combat duty in the Iraq War, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Criswell Chevrolet summarily denied the parts department worker’s

DALLAS — The Results Companies, LLC, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based business services outsourcing firm, agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, The Results Companies hired an employee who is blind as a telephonic customer service representative to work from its call center in Wichita Falls, Texas. After accepting the position, the employee requested to

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – Kurt Bluemel, Inc., a plant nursery in Baldwin, Maryland, will pay $40,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a pregnant worker who had been employed by the company since 2017 requested maternity leave in September 2023, with the expectation that she would return to work after giving

DALLAS – A federal judge has denied SkyWest Airlines, Inc.’s bid for a new trial and upheld an order that SkyWest pay a former parts clerk $300,000 in damages. The ruling came after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit in which a federal jury found SkyWest liable for subjecting her to a sexually hostile work environment. The court further ordered injunctive relief for a three-year period. 

In November 2024, following a

DETROIT – The Phoenix Center, a mental health and substance abuse recovery center headquartered in Ironton, Ohio, will pay $65,610 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Center.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on or around Aug. 25, 2021, a woman applied for a case manager position at one of The Phoenix Center’s four Ohio facilities but was rejected a month later because of her chronic

BEDFORD, Ind. – General Motors (GM) and the international union of United Auto Workers violated federal law when they negotiated a collective bargaining agreement which limited short-term disability payments to older workers who receive Social Security Retirement benefits, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, since at least 2019, the agreement between the parties provided that GM will pay weekly benefits to employees who miss

DALLAS – La Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC, por sus siglas en inglés) de los Estados Unidos anunció hoy el nombramiento de Timothy Maughan como abogado regional para la Oficina del Distrito de Dallas de la agencia.

Maughan tiene quince años de experiencia en litigios y más de dos décadas de experiencia en la aplicación de la ley pública, incluido el tiempo como defensor del juez en la Fuerza Aérea

DALLAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the appointment of Timothy Maughan as regional attorney for the agency’s Dallas District Office.

Maughan has fifteen years of litigation experience and over two decades of public law enforcement experience, including time as a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Justice. He has a comprehensive understanding of employment law and civil rights issues, having represented both employees and employers

DALLAS – Property management companies Castle Hills Master Association Inc., Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the suit, the companies terminated a pregnant resident coordinator who was diagnosed with placenta previa, a pregnancy-related disability. After the employee was hospitalized and prescribed bedrest

DALLAS – A federal jury has awarded $2 million in punitive damages against SkyWest Airlines, a Utah-based airline, and $170,000 for emotional harm to Sarah Budd, a female parts clerk, to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The verdict is the largest jury trial award ever obtained by the EEOC in the Northern District of Texas.

According to the EEOC, multiple coworkers

BALTIMORE – Verizon Maryland, LLC, will pay $115,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a management employee who suffered from hypertension asked his manager for a change to a field position or to an alternate management position to accommodate his disability. There was an opening for a field position which the employee

CLARKSTON, Mich. – Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC said the harassment included repeated misgendering, deadnaming (using a name a person no longer uses against their wishes) and publicizing his birth name without consent.

According to the lawsuit, Asher

BALTIMORE – Kurt Bluemel, a Baltimore County commercial nursery, failed to accommodate a pregnant worker who needed leave and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

According to the lawsuit, the pregnant worker requested maternity leave with the expectation that she would resume employment after giving birth. When she attempted to return to work, she was told that no work was available. However, the employer hired

BALTIMORE – GBMC Hospital violated federal law when it discriminated against a deaf employee because of disability and retaliated against her for asking for an accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, GBMC hired a registered nurse (RN) who is deaf to work at its main hospital. When GBMC learned that the RN is deaf after she requested accommodations, GBMC rescinded the offer of