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NEW YORK – Mavis Tire Supply LLC, a nationwide tire dealer and automotive service provider based in White Plains, New York, entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve a religious discrimination and retaliation charge, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe that Mavis Tire failed to hire an applicant for a managerial position in the Central New York region because, during

NEW YORK – Delta Air Lines violated federal law when it rescinded a job offer from an applicant due to her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Delta extended a conditional employment offer in July 2022 to an applicant for a ticket agent customer service representative position at one of its New York City airport locations. One condition Delta required was passing

NEW YORK – Columbia University will pay $21 million for a class settlement fund to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Columbia employees occurring on its campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. This settlement resolves EEOC charges, including a Commissioner’s Charge brought by Acting Chair Andrea Lucas in 2024 on behalf of a class of all Jewish employees, alleging that since at least Oct

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — All Day Medical Care Clinic, LLC., a healthcare provider offering a variety of medical specialists who treat both walk-in and scheduled patients, will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that All Day Medical Care Clinic violated federal law by failing to provide an employee with a disability with a

BALTIMORE – Sheetz, a large convenience store chain, violated federal law by denying employment to a class of job applicants because of their race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC filed suit against Sheetz, Inc.; Sheetz Distribution Services, LLC; and CLI Transport, LP (collectively, Sheetz), which together operate a chain of convenience stores with over 600 locations in six states. According to the lawsuit, Sheetz has

NEW YORK – 299 Madison Ave., LLC, doing business as Library Hotel, violated federal law when it refused to accommodate an employee’s musculoskeletal impairments and constructively terminated their employment because of their impairments, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee of the Library Hotel requested to periodically sit at a stool when working behind the hotel’s front desk and limit extended walking

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has obtained a default judgment in U.S. District Court in its sex discrimination lawsuit against Green JobWorks LLC, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC filed the lawsuit on July 13, 2021, against Green JobWorks LLC, a staffing agency located in Hanover, Maryland, for violating federal law by subjecting female workers to a pattern-or-practice of sex discrimination in job assignments and assignment of work duties. According

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Staffing Solutions of WNY Inc., a Buffalo-based staffing company that places employees with clients throughout Western New York, will pay $550,000 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 EEOC’s lawsuit, Staffing Solutions either refused to hire highly qualified Black applicants or placed them in the lowest paying, least desirable jobs; complied with clients’

BALTIMORE – Shepherd Electric Co., Inc., a wholesale electrical distributor that operates in the Baltimore/Washington area, violated federal law when it fired two former managers because of their race retaliating for complaining about race-based discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Shepherd Electric discriminated against two Black former managers at the company’s Laurel, Maryland warehouse. The EEOC alleged after one of the former

BALTIMORE – Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee because of her race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Sinclair subjected an analyst, a Black woman who worked for the company in Cockeysville, Maryland, to race discrimination when it underpaid her and forced her out of her job. Sinclair treated other employees who are not Black more

BALTIMORE – The Maryland Department of Health’s Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, a state residential psychiatric care center, has been violating federal law by paying its sole male Therapeutic Recreator more than all four female Therapeutic Recreators at the same facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the Finan Center hired the male to a subordinate position and promoted him noncompetitively three

BALTIMORE – Lindsay Ford and Lindsay Ford Management Company, an automobile dealership in Wheaton, Maryland, will pay $105,000 and furnish significant injunctive relief to settle a race/national origin/sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a car salesman of South Asian descent was continuously sub­jected to race- and national origin-based harassment by the dealership’s general manager, which escalated to sexual touching

NEW YORK – Software People, Inc., an IT support staffing agency based in Long Island, New York that contracts with local and state governmental agencies throughout the country, will institute anti-discrimination policies and provide significant training to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Software People refused to refer an applicant for a desktop support position after the applicant

BALTIMORE – Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation’s largest intercity bus common carrier, will pay $45,000, train its human resources managers and hiring officials on religious accommodations and furnish other significant relief to settle a federal religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a Muslim woman whose religious practice included wearing an abaya while in public applied to be a driver

NEW YORK – Software People, an IT support staffing agency based in Long Island, New York that contracts with local and state governmental agencies throughout the country, violated federal law when it refused to refer an otherwise qualified candidate for a position after he objected to a recruiter’s inquiry concerning the candidate’s age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.   
 
According to the EEOC’s complaint, Timothy Mailloux

BALTIMORE – Jerry’s Chevrolet, Inc., an automobile dealership in Baltimore, violated federal law when it paid a female dispatcher lower wages than a male dispatcher and then fired her about one week after she complained about the pay disparity, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.  

According to the EEOC’s suit, Jerry’s paid a female warehouse dispatcher lower wages than it paid a male warehouse dispatcher, even

NEW YORK – A restaurant group that includes Liberty Warehouse, a popular Brooklyn, N.Y. wedding venue, agreed to pay $125,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.  That restaurant group includes the Manhattan restaurants and event spaces called The Water Club, The River Café, and Pershing Square.   

According to the EEOC, Liberty Warehouse’s head chef subjected

BALTIMORE – Performance Food Group, Inc. (PFG), a national marketer and distributor of national and proprietary-branded food and food-related products, will pay $5,075,000 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal nationwide sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, since at least 2004, PFG has engaged in an ongoing pattern or practice of failing to hire a class of female applicants