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FREMONT, Calif. – Electric car maker Tesla, Inc., violated federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and by subjecting some of these workers to retaliation for opposing the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, since at least 2015 to the present, Black employees at Tesla’s Fremont, California manufacturing facilities have routinely endured racial abuse, pervasive stereotyping

LAS VEGAS – La Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU. anunció esta semana cuatro demandas contra restaurantes locales en el área de Las Vegas y el sur de Nevada.

Las demandas presentadas contra Nevada Restaurant Services Inc, Bouchon y Mariscos El Puerto y La Catrina alegan acoso sexual hacia empleados por parte de propietarios, supervisores y gerentes, compañeros de trabajo y/o clientes. Las cuatro demandas incluyeron acusaciones

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced four lawsuits against local restaurants in the Las Vegas and Southern Nevada area this week.

Lawsuits filed against Nevada Restaurant Services Inc, Bouchon, and Mariscos El Puerto and La Catrina allege sexual harassment towards employees by owners, supervisors and management, co-workers, and/or customers. The four lawsuits included allegations raised by workers throughout the hospitality industry, from housekeepers in hotels to waitstaff in both high-end

LAS VEGAS – Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc., the owner and operator of a chain of gambling parlors and hotel casino and resort facilities, which includes the Laughlin River Lodge Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, violated federal law when it failed to prevent and correct ongoing sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, Nevada Restaurant Services

LAS VEGAS — Mariscos El Puerto, Inc. y La Catrina, LLC, un restaurante y bar con sede en Las Vegas, violaron la ley federal cuando sus propietarios, gerentes, supervisores, compañeros de trabajo y clientes sometieron a sus trabajadoras a acoso sexual y sometieron a trabajadores homosexuales y lesbianas a discriminación y acoso, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de los EE. UU. en dos demandas separadas presentadas hoy.

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LAS VEGAS — Mariscos El Puerto, Inc. and La Catrina, LLC, a restaurant and bar based in Las Vegas, violated federal law when its owners, managers, supervisors, co-workers, and customers subjected female workers to sexual harassment and subjected gay and lesbian workers to discrimination and harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two separate lawsuits filed today.                               

LAS VEGAS – KVP, LP, doing business as Bouchon Restaurant, and KRM, Inc, doing business as Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, together operate a restaurant chain including restaurants such as French Laundry, Bouchon Bistro, and Bouchon Bakery, violated federal law by subjecting employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, managers at Bouchon Las Vegas sexually harassed female

RENO, Nev. – E-commerce remanufacturer PRC Industries (PRC) violated federal law by tolerating racial harassment of two Black workers and firing them in retaliation for reporting the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s suit, two Black workers, a married couple hired in Jan. 2020 to work at PRC’s repair facility in Reno, Nev., faced constant racial taunts and slurs, including the ‘n-word,’ from their

LAS VEGAS – AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC (AMTCR), a Kingman, Arizona headquartered franchise owner operating approximately 18 McDonald’s restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California, will pay $1,997,500 to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, since at least 2017, AMTCR knew about sexual harassment and allowed it to continue, unabated, by supervisors, managers, and coworkers

HAYDEN, Idaho – Fashion retailers Sage Boutique, LLC, and Just Because - Washington, LLC, located in Hayden, Idaho, and Newport, Washington, respectively, have agreed to pay a former employee $37,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a discrimination charge filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

Following a federal investigation by the agency’s Seattle Field Office, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe the social media manager had

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Paper manufacturers Packaging Corporation of America Central California Corrugated, LLC. (PCA) and Schwarz Partners LP will pay $385,000 and implement preventative measures to settle a racial harassment lawsuit seeking relief for two African American men who worked at a manufacturing plant located in McClellan, California, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to EEOC’s suit, co-workers and a shift supervisor commonly used racial slurs and derision, even broadcasting these

LAS VEGAS - Focus Plumbing, LLC acordó pagar $500,000 y junto con Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, y Focus Framing, Door, & Trim, LLC, acordaron proporcionar una amplia medida cautelar para resolver una demanda de acoso sexual presentada por la Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC), anunció hoy la agencia federal.

La EEOC alegó que, desde 2017, Focus sometió a un grupo

LAS VEGAS – Focus Plumbing, LLC agreed to pay $500,000 and along with Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door, & Trim, LLC, agreed to furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC alleged that since 2017, Focus subjected a class of monolingual Spanish-speaking female employees to a hostile work

SEATTLE — Spokane Valley-based HVAC contractor Air Control Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc., which does business as Air Control Heating & Electric, Inc., has agreed to pay $361,000 to seven current and former female employees and to be subject to federal oversight for a five-year period to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Air Control’s founder, owner

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Car dealers Victory Automotive Group, Inc. and Cappo Management XXIX, Inc. will pay $150,000 and hire a consultant to facilitate changes to their policies and training practices 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, the joint employers terminated a title clerk working at their Sacramento dealership over fears that she might have cancer. The

LAS VEGAS – SBEEG Holdings, LLC dba Hyde Bellagio, a former Las Vegas night club, and Spoonful Management, LV LLC, will pay $1 million and will provide other injunctive relief to settle a federal charge of sexual harassment filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to a charge filed January 2017, Hyde Bellagio subjected female applicants and employees to sexual harassment and created a hostile work environment

LAS VEGAS – AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC violated federal law by allowing a class of male and female workers to be subjected to egregious sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. Headquartered in Kingman, Ariz., AMTCR is a franchise owner currently operating approximately 22 McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California.

According to the lawsuit, the federal agency alleges that since at

LAS VEGAS –  Focus Plumbing, LLC, Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door & Trim (collectively dba “Focus Companies Group of Nevada”) violated federal law by allowing a class of female workers to be subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2017, Focus allowed a class of female workers

LAS VEGAS – ABM Industries has agreed to pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal charge of national origin harassment filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
 
The charge made to the EEOC alleged that a class of Hispanic employees were harassed in 2017 and 2018 by an ABM manager based on their national origin. This harassment allegedly included threats to alert the immigration

MEDFORD, Ore. — The restaurant New China will pay $120,000 and provide other signifi­cant relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that New China’s male restaurant manager repeatedly targeted female employees ages 15-20 with sexual comments and inappropriate touching that escalated from unwanted hugs to groping. In his 50s, the manager mostly worked the night shift. Because he