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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Lone Wolf Resources, L.L.C., an environmental remediation and construction services company based in Texas will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Lone Wolf management at the company’s Jacksonville location referred to Black employees using racial slurs. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that a Lone Wolf manager referred to a

MIAMI- El Supermercado Presidente No. 31, Inc., un supermercado de Miami, acordó en pagar $75,000 y proporcionar medidas cautelares integrales para resolver una demanda por discriminación por embarazo presentada por la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de EE. UU., anunció hoy la agencia federal.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, Presidente violó la ley federal cuando despidió a una empleada por su embarazo. La mujer trabajaba en la cafetería y

MIAMI – Presidente Supermarket No. 31, Inc., a Miami supermarket, has agreed to pay $75,000 and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Presidente violated federal law when it fired an employee because of her pregnancy. The woman worked in the cafeteria and learned she was pregnant, sharing the news with her co-workers

JACKSONVILLE – DLS Engineering Associates, LLC, a federal contractor based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, will pay $70,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, DLS offered a woman a position as an engineering logistics analyst in Jacksonville, Florida. After she told the company’s vice president that she was five months pregnant, he rescinded

PHILADELPHIA – Eureka Stone Quarry, Inc., a company engaged in mining and sales of sand, stone and other materials in eastern Pennsylvania, will pay $58,000 and furnish significant injunctive relief to settle a race and retaliatory harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an African American heavy equipment operator at Eureka Stone’s Pocono Quarry in eastern Pennsylvania was subjected to egregious

TAMPA – Tampa Bay Delivery Service, LLC, an Amazon delivery service provider in the Tampa Bay area, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee requested to take off Sundays to attend church services. When Tampa Bay Delivery Service scheduled the employee for a Sunday shift, the employee reminded the

TAMPA – Carrabba’s Italian Grill, LLC, and OS Restaurants Services, LLC, which provides staff to restaurants across the country, will pay $690,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the defendants violated federal law when a former managing partner of the Brandon, Florida Carrabba’s subjected female employees there to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal

JACKSONVILLE – DLS Engineering Associates, LLC, a federal contractor based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, violated federal law by rescinding a woman’s job offer upon learning she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, DLS offered a woman a position as an engineering logistics analyst in Jacksonville, Florida. After she told the company’s vice president that she was five months pregnant, he rescinded

MIAMI – Noble House Solé, LLC, a resort hotel in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will pay $99,000 to a terminated room attendant who needed Saturdays off due to her religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Solé Miami accommodated the employee’s Sabbath observance for over ten months after she began her employment without incident.  Unfortunately, when a new supervisor came onboard, Solé Miami scheduled the employee

ORLANDO, Fla. – Shelley’s Septic Tank, Inc., a Florida company operating in the Orlando area, has agreed to pay $82,500 and furnish other relief to settle a same-sex sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC charged that Shelley’s violated federal law when a driver was sexually harassed by the company’s owner and fired in retaliation for complaining to the sheriff’s office

MIAMI – A federal judge has ordered a sex and wage discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the University of Miami (UM) to proceed to trial, the federal agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, filed on July 29, 2019, the EEOC charged that UM paid a female professor in its political science department $28,000 per year less than a male professor in the same department.

Such alleged conduct violates

PHILADELPHIA – Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation doing business as Geisinger Health System, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, and affiliates (collectively, “Geisinger”), violated federal law when they discriminated against a registered nurse and a class of employees because of their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Geisinger requires employees with disabilities to compete for reassignment to a new position even

Jacksonville, Fla. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it sued Lone Wolf Resources, L.L.C. for racial discrimination which occurred at its Jacksonville location. Texas-based Lone Wolf is an environmental remediation and construction services company.

The EEOC’s complaint alleges that Lone Wolf management referred to Black employees using racial slurs. Specifically, it alleges that a Lone Wolf co-owner and a manager referred to a Black employee as a “blue gum monkey,”

PHILADELPHIA – The Pai Corporation, doing business as Excentia Human Services and as Excentia and S. June Smith Center (“Excentia”), violated federal law when it discriminated against a candidate with cerebral palsy for employment because of her disability, the EEOC charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Stevie Baum was a qualified candidate for a preschool teacher assistant position with Excentia and had two successful interviews.  After Baum reported to the

MIAMI – El Supermercado Presidente No. 31, Inc., ubicado en Miami en una cadena de más de 30 supermercados en Florida, violó la ley federal al despedir a una empleada porque estaba embarazada, acusó la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de EE. UU. en una demanda presentada hoy.

Según la demanda por la EEOC, tan pronto como la gerencia de Presidente se enteró de que la empleada estaba embarazada, el

MIAMI – Presidente Supermarket No. 31, Inc., a Miami location in a chain of over 30 supermarkets in Florida, violated federal law by firing an employee because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, as soon as Presidente management learned that the employee was pregnant, the manager terminated her. The manager then told coworkers that the employee could not return to

SAN JUAN, PR – Triple-S Vida, Inc., la compañía de seguros de vida en Puerto Rico, violó la ley federal al negarse una adaptación razonable a una empleada con una discapacidad, acusó la Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (EEOC) de Estados Unidos en una demanda presentada hoy.

Según la demanda de la EEOC, la empleada trabajaba para Triple-S Vida, Inc. ("Triple-S Vida") como Representante de Ventas Autorizada, un puesto que requería

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Triple-S Vida, Inc., the leading life insurance company in Puerto Rico, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee worked for Triple-S Vida, Inc. (“Triple-S Vida”) as an Authorized Sales Representative, a position which required extensive driving, when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which caused her

PHILADELPHIA – Four companies, one in West Virginia and three in Pennsylvania, violated federal law by subjecting their Black employees to racially hostile work environments and other unlawful discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in three separate lawsuits filed today.

The EEOC filed the first racial harassment case against Coastal Drilling East, LLC (Coastal Drilling), a Pennsylvania-based company that provides geotechnical construction services in the natural gas industry. According to the lawsuit

PHILADELPHIA — JDKD Enterprises, LP, a Sewell-New Jersey limited partnership that owns and operates numerous McDonald’s franchises in New Jersey, violated federal law when it fired a grill cook due to his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the suit, a grill cook who has autism spectrum disorder worked at McDonald’s for 37 years, including for about ten years at a McDonald’s restaurant in

TAMPA, Fla. – Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, LLC, doing business as Applebee’s, violated federal law by subjecting an employee to race and sexual orientation discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC charges that the Plant City, Fla., Applebee’s subjected a Black line cook to a hostile work environment based on his sexual orientation and race and retaliated against him for complaining, leading to his being forced

BALTIMORE – CACI Secured Transformations, LLC, CACI International Inc, and CACI, Inc. – Federal (collectively, CACI) have agreed to pay $150,000 and provide other relief 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, CACI subjected a former systems administrator to disability discrimination when the company refused to grant reasonable accommodations that she requested for her disability. The EEOC

TAMPA, Fla. – Chipotle Services LLC, doing business as Chipotle Mexican Grill, a Mexican-style fast food chain, has agreed to pay $70,000 in damages and furnish other relief in order to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a male Chipotle crew person repeatedly made sexually offensive remarks about the body of a female Chipotle service manager at its International

BECKLEY, W.V. – Affiliated companies Southern Coal Corporation, Kentucky Coal Transport, LLC, and Tams Management, Inc., together with contracted hauling company Legacy Land Management, Inc., will pay $50,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC said the companies retaliated against coal truck driver Michael Atkins for opposing his former employer’s alleged unlawful discrimination and for