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NEW ORLEANS – Ecoserv, LLC, an industrial cleaning company in Abbeville, Louisiana, violated federal law by engaging in a pattern or practice of refusing to hire applicants who were Black, female, or 40 years old or over, and by firing a human resources employee who opposed the discrim­inatory practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Sept. 22.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Ecoserv instructed a former human resources

ST. LOUIS – Worldwide Printing and Distribution, Inc. doing business as ResourceOne, a commercial printing, direct mailing and direct marketing company operating out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, violated federal law when a supervisor harassed her with racial and national origin slurs after the employee shared her DNA ancestry results, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, in or around August 2022, the employee received results

ST. LOUIS – Sun Chemical Corporation violated federal law by failing to prevent or correct a racially hostile work environment at one of its facilities and then retaliating against an employee who complained about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit yesterday.

According to the EEOC’s suit, an employee at Sun Chemical’s manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri was subjected to a racially hostile work environment when a coworker verbally

ST. LOUIS – Refuse disposal company Allied Services, LLC, doing business as Allied Waste Services of the Ozarks / Republic Services of the Ozarks, violated federal law when it failed to hire qualified female drivers at its Springfield, Missouri facility because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

According to the EEOC's suit, Jamie Mendoza applied to work for Republic Services as a garbage truck driver

ST. LOUIS – National restaurant chain Chipotle violated federal law when a manager at the company’s Lenexa, Kansas location harassed a teen worker for wearing a hijab and when the company retaliated against her after she complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday. The agency further alleged the teen was forced to resign because of the discriminatory treatment.

According to the suit, the teen was employed as a

ST. LOUIS – Vicars Powersports, a McAlester, Oklahoma retailer of ATVs, UTVs, dirt bikes, motorcycles and personal watercraft, violated federal law when it fired a female manager because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, prior to April 2020, a female employee at Vicars Powersports was performing both finance manager and sales manager duties. She was the only woman working in

ST. LOUIS – Multinational retailer Walmart violated federal law when it failed to provide effective means of communication to two employees with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, the two employees were hired by Walmart as overnight stockers at a store in Olathe, Kansas. The employees, both of whom are deaf, required an interpreter for communica­tion during key times, such as orientation, training

ST. LOUIS – An eight-person jury in Omaha, Nebraska returned a verdict of $36,075,000 in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on disability discrimination claims against Drivers Management, LLC and Werner Enterprises, Inc., the federal agency announced today. The jury awarded Robinson $75,000 in compensatory damages and $36,000,000 in punitive damages after deliberating for less than two hours following a four-day trial, finding that Drivers Management and Werner’s conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities

HOUSTON – Employment & Training Centers, Inc. violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation for an individual applying for a data entry position in its Houston office, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Employment & Training Centers, Inc. interviewed an applicant with an end-stage renal disease and made a conditional offer of employment to the applicant, subject to the applicant

HOUSTON – Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay $175,000 and provide other relief pursuant to a consent decree entered by a federal district court on July 7, resolving a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The complaint alleged that the company denied employment to a class of individuals it unlawfully regarded as disabled.

According to the EEOC’s

ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and crafts retailer, will pay $50,000 to resolve 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, Hobby Lobby violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to allow a part-time clerk at its Olathe, Kansas store to use her service dog on the job as a reasonable accommodation

ST. LOUIS – A.V.I. Sea Bar & Chophouse restaurant, a Wichita steakhouse with an attached catering service known as Corporate Caterers of Wichita, has agreed to pay $55,000 to a former employee and furnish other relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, hostess Macee Hoffman was provided a stool she used between serving customers to help alleviate

ST. LOUIS – ResourceMFG, a national manufacturing specialty staffing company, will pay $75,000 to resolve a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, Anke Hicks, a German-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, sought employment through ResourceMFG in February 2020 and was offered a position at a federal government contractor that required U.S. citizenship. ResourceMFG told Hicks she was required to present a

ST. LOUIS – Hiland Dairy Foods, a Springfield, Missouri-based producer and distributor of dairy products, will pay $140,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, Hiland refused to hire a man to work at its Norman, Oklahoma, dairy plant because of his vision impairment. Hiland initially offered the applicant a dairy plant worker position knowing he had a

HOUSTON – American Piping Inspection, Inc. (API), an Oklahoma-based testing and piping inspection services company, agreed to pay $250,000 and to provide other substantial equitable relief to resolve a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Black radiographer hired to work out of API’s Midland, Texas office was subjected to racist remarks by his supervisor, beginning his first

ST. LOUIS – Outwest Express, a transportation services company, and American One Source, a professional employer organization that provides human resource services, have agreed to pay $90,000 to voluntarily resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission, the federal agency announced today. Both companies are based in El Paso, Texas.

The agreement announced today resolves a charge of discrimination filed with the EEOC alleging that a female recruiter

ST. LOUIS – Landmark Dodge and Landmark South, an Independence, Mo. auto dealership, violated federal law by segregating its sales and office employees by sex, hiring only men for sales jobs and women for office jobs and retaliating against employees who challenged the discriminatory hiring practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, for at least two years from May 2017 to May 2019, Landmark

ST. LOUIS – Operators of an Omaha hotel violated federal law when they fired a general manager after being hospitalized for depression, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, the manager worked at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, which is owned and operated by Anant Enterprises, Anant Operations, and Farnam Lodging. He advised the companies’ human resources official in the fall of 2019 that

ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts-and-crafts retailer, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate a cashier at its Olathe, Kansas store by allowing her to use a service dog and then fired her because of her disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, the employee advised her manager that she needed to bring her fully trained service dog

ST LOUIS – ResourceMFG, una compañía nacional de personal especializado en manufactura, violó la ley federal cuando no refirió a una solicitante de empleo de Oklahoma porque no nació en los Estados Unidos, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE. UU. (EEOC, por sus siglas en inglés) en una demanda presentada recientemente.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, Anke Hicks, ciudadana estadounidense naturalizada nacida en Alemania, entrevistó con

ST. LOUIS – ResourceMFG, a national manufacturing specialty staffing company, violated federal law when it failed to refer an Oklahoma job applicant for employment because she was not born in the United States, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a recently filed lawsuit.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Anke Hicks, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen, interviewed with a ResourceMFG recruiter in February 2020 and was offered a position at XPO Logistics, a

NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana restaurant admitted that it violated federal law when it fired and then later refused to rehire a worker because she was pregnant as part of federal court resolution with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC announced today. 

Bourne’s House, LLC, doing business as Bourne’s House Restaurant in Franklinton, Louisiana, and the EEOC resolved the pregnancy discrimination lawsuit through a consent decree, which was approved on May 26, 2022

HOUSTON – Two oil and gas explor­ation companies -- Vantage Energy Services, Inc. and Vantage International Management Company Pte. Ltd. -- will pay $54,500 and provide training to its managers and human resources staff to resolve 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, an employee suffered a heart attack while working aboard one of the defendants’ drill ships off

HOUSTON – Spike Electric and Controls, LLC, located in Houston, will pay a former employee $85,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an outside sales representative employed by Spike Electric was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a form of cancer, and subsequently scheduled to have surgery to remove a tumor. The employee notified the company of his diagnosis