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WASHINGTON – TrueBlue, Inc. and PeopleReady, Inc., labor sourcing companies with offices across the United States, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a federal disability discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the companies fired an employee because of her psychiatric disability. The employee, who worked at the Manassas, Virginia office of TrueBlue’s subsidiary, PeopleReady, was not

BALTIMORE -- Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) violated federal law by paying a male district community liaison lower wages than his female co­workers because of gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the suit, Robert Rager began working as a district community liaison for the MDOT SHA in 2007, a public affairs and community relations position, and he continues in this

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

WASHINGTON -- R&R Janitorial, Painting and Building Services, Inc., a federal contractor that provides janitorial services to government agencies, violated federal law when it fired 16 Hispanic workers because of their race and national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, effective April 27, 2018, R&R terminated 16 Hispanic janitors who had been working at the Harry S. Truman building in Washington

WASHINGTON- TrueBlue, Inc., a Tacoma, Washington.-based staffing company with branch offices nationwide, violated federal law by discriminating against an employee based on her disability at the Manassas, Virginia, office of its subsidiary, PeopleReady, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee worked as a marketing coordinator and needed to take leave due to a psychiatric disability.  TrueBlue denied the employee’s request and fired

WASHINGTON – Key Management Partners, a Greenbelt, Maryland-based consulting firm with government contracts, violated federal law when its chief executive officer (CEO) sexually harassed a female employee and then punished her for resisting, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Sept. today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Key’s CEO subjected the woman, a single mother, to unwelcome sexual propositioning, and then terminated her because she rejected the advances. The

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

BALTIMORE – Green JobWorks LLC, a staffing company located in Hanover, Md., violated federal law by subjecting female workers to sex discrimination in job assignments and assignment of work duties, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Green JobWorks has refused to hire female workers for demolition and laborer positions or to assign those workers to such positions because of their sex. The EEOC’s

BALTIMORE - Optimal Solutions & Technologies, Inc. (OST), a provider of cyber, engineer­ing, logistics and managed services, will pay $60,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a federal disability discrimination suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a senior SharePoint administrator working at OST's Hyattsville, Md., facility informed his supervisor that he had a benign brain tumor which would require about six

BALTIMORE – On Dec 23, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ruled that Baltimore City and its Enoch Pratt Free Library violated federal law by paying female Librarian Supervisor Is lower wages than a male coworker because of sex.  The ruling followed a five-day virtual bench trial which occurred September 28 through October 2.

According to the suit filed in September 2017, Enoch Pratt Library rehired a male in June 2015

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

BALTIMORE – Charlottesville, Va.-based DoodyCalls, a leading pet waste removal company, will pay $40,000 and provide significant equitable relief to resolve a federal pregnancy and disability discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the suit, a female pet waste technician at DoodyCalls’s Rockville, Md., facility, whose duties included visiting residential and commercial sites to collect and dispose of pet waste, told the operations manager that she had a pregnancy-related