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BALTIMORE — Solera Holdings, LLC, a Westlake, Texas-based vehicle lifecycle management company, violated federal law when it denied a blind employee the same job-related support and resources provided to other employees and then fired him, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Solera transferred the longtime employee, who worked from his home in Bel Air, Maryland, from a consultant position to a sales position

CHICAGO — BNSF Railway Company violated federal law when it fired an employee because of his disability after he requested a reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, the employee, who has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition which can result in painful joints, was hired as a BNSF laborer in Chicago in April 2023. During required field training in Overland Park, Kansas, he

DENVER — Aurora, Colorado-based Wagner Equipment, an industrial machinery and equipment company, will pay $200,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit for disability discrimination and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Wagner Equipment used unlawful qualification standards which screened out an employee with a disability who was attempting to return from work following medical leave. Specifically, the company required

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Wal-Mart Stores East, LP, the largest operator of discount department stores in the country, violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf employee at a Fredericksburg Walmart, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, starting in September 2020, a deaf employee who worked as a stocker requested sign language interpreter services for daily staff meetings. These

NEWARK, N.J. — Piscataway, New Jersey-based Novadoz Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $116,666 to settle a 2025 charge alleging it denied an assistant manager’s request to work remotely because of her race, her American national origin and her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

The EEOC’s charge investigation found reasonable cause that Novadoz approved Piscataway-based Indian employees to work remotely from India for personal reasons, but forced the American employee to take

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Optima Care Secaucus, LLC, doing business as Optima Care Fountains, owner and operator of a skilled nursing home and rehabilitation facility, violated federal law when it revoked a certified nursing assistant’s reasonable accommodations without reason and then fired her based on her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’S lawsuit, Optima Care accommodated the employee’s musculoskeletal impairments for almost seven years

BOSTON — Atlantic Property Management Corporation and its affiliate, Diversified Funding, Inc., property management companies in Boston, will pay $112,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit charging disability discrimination and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the companies offered an administrative assistant position to a woman in September 2021, but revoked the job offer a few weeks later when

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Arc, Inc., a nonprofit providing disability support services, violated federal law when it refused to provide a pregnant employee with reasonable accommodations, forced her to take leave, and ultimately terminated her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a community support specialist at St. Louis Arc notified her supervisors in early 2024 that she was pregnant and later submitted

OKLAHOMA CITY — Willow Park Healthcare Center and Southwest LTC Management Services violated federal law when they denied a nurse’s request for disability‑related medical leave, harassed her, and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a wound care nurse at Willow Park Healthcare Center in Lawton, Oklahoma needed surgery for a disabling back condition in 2024 and informed her supervisors that

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Bollinger Shipyards, LLC, a provider of marine construction, repair and conversion services employing more than 300 workers at 10 shipyards across the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts, and its subsidiary Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilder, LLC, violated federal law by rescinding job offers after learning of applicants’ prescription medications, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, between October 2024 through February 2025, the companies offered

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), a national shipping, logistics, and supply chain management company, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate or hire a deaf applicant because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, in November 2024, a qualified deaf applicant applied for an entry-level package handling position in Chantilly, Virginia. UPS made a conditional offer of employment

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Kroger subsidiary Fred Meyer Stores, a national supermarket chain headquartered in Portland, Oregon, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate pregnant employees, retaliated against them, and fired them for requesting reasonable accommodations, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a pregnant employee at a Fred Meyer store in Vancouver requested an accommodation for severe nausea and vomiting due to her

TUCSON, Ariz. — Montreal, Canada-headquartered Bombardier, an aircraft manufacturing and maintenance company with job sites across the United States, violated federal law when it screened out a class of job applicants based on an unlawful qualification standard, failed to accommodate their disabilities, and refused to hire job applicants with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an airplane mechanic with more than 15

DENVER — Aurora, Colorado-headquartered Wagner Equipment, an industrial machinery and equipment company providing heavy machinery for sale and rent in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, violated federal law when it subjected an employee to unlawful qualifications standards, failed to accommodate her disability, and then retaliated against her by firing her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Wagner employee working as a painter

MEMPHIS — Triad National Security, LLC, a laboratory management company based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, agreed to resolve charges of discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $2.8 million and other relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC received multiple charges of discrimination alleging that since at least 2021 Triad denied employees religious and/or disability accommodations to the company’s vaccine mandate and testing policy and retaliated against them. The

HOUSTON — Majestic Developers, LLC, a real estate developer in Sugar Land, Texas, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate and fired a legally blind employee on his first day of work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in late 2024, Majestic Developers offered an engineering position to an applicant to design drainage systems for their ongoing real estate development projects in

ATLANTA — Reynolds IGA Foodliner, Inc., owner and operator of a chain of grocery stores, will pay $65,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, shortly after she was hired as a deli clerk at the Piggly Wiggly store in Hazlehurst, Georgia, the employee requested Sundays off to observe her Sabbath

ALEXANDRIA, La. — Hunt Forest Products, L.L.C., a Ruston, Louisiana-based wood products manufacturing company, violated federal law when it terminated a laborer’s employment after learning he had a seizure while not at work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Hunt Forest Products required the worker to undergo an examination because of a seizure he had in May 2023. The examining neurologist recommended that

LAS VEGAS — GSK Research Inc. and KGS Research, Inc., doing business as VRI Research, operators of a call center in Las Vegas, violated federal law when they discriminated against employees because of their disabilities and retaliated against them for requesting accommodations, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since August 2018 the defendants failed to observe their legal responsibilities under the Americans with

MOBILE, Ala. — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG), a shipbuilding company located in Panama City, Florida, violated federal law when it rescinded an Army veteran’s job offer shortly after learning of his Veterans Administration disability rating, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company gave him a job offer as a machinist in November 2024, conditional upon passing a pre-employment/post-offer physical examination. Although

RALEIGH, N.C. — Summit Hospitality Group, Ltd., doing business as Residence Inn Raleigh Downtown, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee’s disability and discharged him from employment when he was not able to return to work at 100% capacity, according to a lawsuit announced today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in March 2024, an employee who worked at the Residence Inn Raleigh Downtown as

GREENBELT, Md. — MedStar Health, Inc., a healthcare network in Maryland, and member hospital MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, Maryland, violated federal law by failing to hire an applicant with a disability and conducting an unlawful post-offer medical examination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in March 2024, MedStar extended a job offer to an applicant in an admitting registrar position

DALLAS — National discount retailer Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, Inc, violated federal law when it refused to hire a profoundly deaf applicant at its distribution warehouse in Lancaster, Texas because of her disability and subjected her to an overtly discriminatory qualification standard, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in May 2025, Ollie’s refused to hire the applicant, who had several years of experience working

ATLANTA — Exel Inc., doing business as DHL Supply Chain (USA), an international logistics company headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, will pay $80,000 and take remedial measures to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Exel denied a reasonable accommodation to a temporary employee at its Forest Park, Georgia logistics center who has sickle cell disorder, which can be triggered by extreme