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SEATTLE – Logic Staffing, a Washington-based staffing and recruiting agency, agreed to pay $217,500 after failing to hire a Muslim job applicant after he asked about a religious accommodation to attend Friday prayer. The company also agreed to provide other relief, resolving a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's suit, Logic Staffing invited the applicant to interview at its Kent, Washington, headquarters

SEATTLE – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has agreed to pay $57,577 in compensatory damages and back pay and provide other injunctive relief following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

In the charge, a former employee alleged that he was terminated five days after disclosing his disability and discussing a potential need for a related accommodation with his employer. The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause

NEWPORT, Ore. –JC Market, Inc., doing business as JC Market Thriftway, a Lincoln County, Oregon grocery chain, has agreed to provide $50,000 in compensatory damages, backpay, and furnish other injunctive relief to resolve a charge of disability discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC investigation found the applicant interviewed for a position with the owner of JC Market and was given a job offer and

SAN ANTONIO, Texas –Dental Health Products, Inc. (DHP), a nationwide provider of supplies and equipment to dental practices, will pay $25,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal sex-based retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female sales representative made a written complaint to DHP’s human resources department alleging that her manager was discriminating against her because of her

SAN ANTONIO – Wisconsin-based Dental Health Products, Inc. (DHP), a nationwide provider of supplies and equipment to dental practices, violated federal law by firing a sales represent­ative based in McAllen, Texas because she made a complaint to human resources alleging sex-based discrim­ination and harass­ment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the sales representative made a written complaint to DHP’s human resources department alleging