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MONTROSE, Colo. – SSC Montrose San Juan Operating Co., LLC, SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services, LLC, and Sava Senior Care LLC (collectively, “Sava”) violated federal law by tolerating the sexual harassment of female employees by Sava’s clients at the San Juan Living Center in Montrose, Colorado, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, clients at the San Juan Living Center repeatedly subjected female employees to sexual harassment

BOISE, Idaho — Recruiting services company Jivaro Professional Headhunters violated federal law by retaliating against a former employee because she filed a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency charged in a recently filed lawsuit.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Felicia Bauer was hired as a senior technical recruiter to work at the company’s Hailey, Idaho facility. According to the EEOC’s suit, after Bauer filed a charge with the EEOC alleging

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, doing business as HonorHealth, which provides medical care at a number of hospitals and medical facilities in the Phoenix area, failed to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The EEOC also alleged that HonorHealth fired employees or forced them to quit because of their disabilities or because they needed accommo­dations.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Paper products manufacturers Schwarz Partners LP and Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) violated federal law by tolerating racial harassment of two African American workers at a manufacturing plant located in McClellan, Calif., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to EEOC’s suit, co-workers and a shift supervisor commonly used racial slurs and taunts, even broadcasting these phrases over the plant’s radio system. The African American

PORTLAND, Ore. — Veterinary clinic Hannah’s Inc., operating as Hannah the Pet Society, violated federal law by allowing a manager to sexually harass a female nurse in her early 20s, creating conditions so intolerable that she had to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Despite a history of harassment complaints against the Tigard clinic’s male chief of staff, the EEOC found that the company failed to take

SEATTLE, Wash. — The owner of a Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham, a hotel located near the Seattle-Tacoma airport in Kent, Wash., violated federal law when it allowed a manager to sexually harass two Latina housekeepers and retaliated against one after she protested the illegal conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, a male manager at Hawthorn Suites harassed them by cornering and groping them

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Presbyterian Healthcare Services, operating Lincoln County Medical Center and its emergency services unit in Ruidoso, N.M., will pay $150,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit for race discrimination and retaliation brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Lincoln County Medical Center subjected Tabitha Knoll-Billingsley, an African American emergency medical technician, to race discrimination and then retaliated against her

CUPERTINO, CA – A San Jose-based electrical subcontractor at the Apple Park construc­tion project, Air Systems Inc. (ASI), will pay $1,250,000 to eight African American former employees and provide other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the racial harassment included racist graffiti of swastikas and racial epithets drawn on the walls of the portable toilets

PHOENIX – Trafficade Service, Inc. violated federal law when it subjected two Hispanic employees to verbal and physical harassment because of their national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC further charged that Trafficade retaliated against the same two employees for opposing the harassment.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Trafficade managers and employees repeatedly used racial slurs when referring to the employees and created an unsafe workplace

SAN FRANCISCO – Foster City-based software publisher Guidewire Software, Inc. will pay $200,000 and hire a consultant to facilitate changes to its policies and training practices 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 suit, Guidewire invited a qualified applicant to participate in a phone screening for a position at the company based on her online application and resume

SAN FRANCISCO – Nationwide senior care provider Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc. will pay $80,000 and provide other relief to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an African American caregiver working at Brookdale’s Auburn, Calif., facility overheard co-workers use a phrase with racial connotations offensive to the caregiver. Soon after the caregiver complained about the comments and

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – St. Vincent Hospital (SVH), doing business as Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, will pay $98,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability 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 St. Vincent Hospital supervisor subjected Asheley Coriz to a hostile work environment because she is deaf. The lawsuit also charged that