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BALTIMORE – Dolgencorp, LLC, trading as Dollar General Stores Inc., a national retailer that operates over 17,000 stores in 46 states, will pay $50,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal sexual harassment suit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.  

According to the suit, the store manager for the Rock Hall, Md., Dollar General repeatedly subjected an assistant manager to unwelcome harassment, including once grabbing her head and forcing

CLEVELAND — Main Event Entertainment, Inc., an entertainment and dining establishment in Avon, Ohio, will pay $40,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

Following an investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that Main Event failed to hire an applicant for a technician position because of his disability and in retaliation for his asking

BALTIMORE – Koerner Management Group, Inc., doing business as IHOP (KMG), a Virginia based corporation that owns 12 IHOP restaurant franchises, subjected women, including teen workers, to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) agency charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a manager at KMG’s IHOP restaurant in Frederick, Md., subjected a group of female employees to unwanted advances and touching, including asking teen workers to show

BALTIMORE -- Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a major restaurant chain, will pay $15,000 and provide significant equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's suit, an applicant who is deaf applied online for the position of dishwasher. When he appeared for his scheduled interview at the restaurant’s Linthicum Heights, Md., store, however, he was turned away

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

WEIRTON, W.V. – Route 22 Sports Bar, Inc. and Crazy Mexican Restaurant & Grill, LLC, two restaurants in Weirton, W.V., subjected female workers to sexual harassment and fired a bartender for reporting it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a male owner of the two restaurants subjected a female bartender to sexual harassment, including propositioning her for sex, making sexually offensive statements

WEIRTON, W.V. – Route 22 Sports Bar, Inc. and Crazy Mexican Restaurant & Grill, LLC, two restaurants in Weirton, W.V., subjected female workers to sexual harassment and fired a bartender for reporting it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a male owner of the two restaurants subjected a female bartender to sexual harassment, including propositioning her for sex, making sexually offensive statements

BALTIMORE – MVM, Inc., an Ashburn, Va.-based diversified security services firm, will pay $200,000 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal class sexual harassment and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com­mission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, MVM’s site manager at the Social Security Administration’s Woodlawn, Md., campus sub­jected a female security guard to sexual harassment, including unwanted physical touching

BALTIMORE – Maryland Health Management, LLC, doing business as Nature’s Medicines, and AMMA Investment Group, LLC, will pay $175,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. Nature’s Medicines is a retail distributor of medical cannabis products. AMMA Investment Group, LLC, performed business operations, including human resources and payroll functions, for Nature’s Medicines.

According to the suit

BALTIMORE – MVM, Inc., an Ashburn, Va.-based diversified security services firm, will pay $1,600,000 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal systemic national origin and retaliation discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com­mission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, government contractor MVM engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against Africans based on their national origin and retaliated against employees for complaining

BALTIMORE – Maryland-based Davis & Davis Enterprise, Inc., an employer of security guards that also operates under the name All Secure Security Company, has agreed to resolve a federal sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, Davis & Davis employs armed security guards at detention centers in Baltimore but also offers its employees occasional opportunities to work as security personnel at

BALTIMORE – Blackstone Consulting Inc, which provides environmental, facilities management and other services to clients, will pay $37,500 in monetary relief and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal national origin discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the suit, Blackstone hired a woman from El Salvador, who had limited English-speaking skills, as a part-time cleaner. Blackstone interviewed and trained her in Spanish and assigned her to work with

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