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Pilot Plastics Conciliates EEOC Sex Discrimination and Retaliation Finding
CLEVELAND — Pilot Plastics, which operated a plastics manufacturing company in Peninsula, Ohio, has agreed to pay $52,500 in monetary relief to a former employee to resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
Following an investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe Pilot Plastics discriminated against a former employee because of his sex by subjecting him to sexual harassment
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USF Holland to Pay $490,000 and Provide $120,000 in Scholarships to Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination Suit
OXFORD, Miss. – USF HOLLAND, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, Inc., and a less-than-truckload carrier, will pay $490,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
USF Holland’s Olive Branch, Mississippi terminal opened in 1986. The EEOC charged that it failed since that time to hire any female drivers at the terminal, except for one female whom
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Community Hospital Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination
INDIANAPOLIS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a suit it filed against Munster Medical Research Foundation, Inc., operators of Community Hospital, located in Munster, Indiana, for failing to accommodate an employee with a disability.
In its lawsuit, the EEOC charges that Community Hospital determined that the employee, a registered nurse, could not return to her job after a work injury resulted in lifting restrictions. The employee expressed interest in several jobs
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Verona Area School District Settles EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit
MADISON, Wis. – Verona Area School District will pay $450,000, raise salaries, and furnish other relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the school district violated civil rights law by paying nine female special education teachers and one female school psychologist lower wages than more recently hired male employees doing the same work. All nine special education
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NSN, LLC Will Pay $42,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination and Retaliation Suit
RALEIGH, N.C. – NSN, LLC, a Virginia Corporation which provides staffing for a licensing and vocational testing center in Raleigh, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $42,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s complaint, the employee for whom the EEOC sought relief worked as a part-time testing center administrator in the Raleigh
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Sanderson Farms to Pay $62,384 to Settle EEOC Lawsuit for Disability Discrimination
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sanderson Farms, LLC and Sanderson Farms, LLC (Processing Division), divisions of the nation’s third-largest producer of chicken products, have agreed to pay $62,384 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
In its suit, the EEOC charged that the companies fired a long-term disabled employee at their processing plant in Summit, Mississippi after he sought
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R3 Government Solutions to Pay $82,500 to Resolve EEOC Discrimination and Retaliation Suit
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – R3 Government Solutions, LLC, a federal contractor, will pay $82,500 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, R3 discriminated and retaliated against a Black woman who worked for R3 as a recruiter. The EEOC alleged the recruiter opposed what she believed were R3’s discriminatory hiring practices, which included rejecting candidates because of their
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EEOC Launches “Level the Paying Field” Equal Pay Video Campaign
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is kicking off a social media video campaign called “Level The Paying Field” to commemorate the anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 on June 10.
#LevelThePayingField starts June 9 and will last through Aug. 20 to coincide with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, which starts July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
“In many cases, women across the country are
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Pretium Packaging to Pay $252,768 to Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination Suit
TOLEDO, Ohio – Pretium Packaging, LLC, a manufacturer of plastic bottles and containers, will pay $252,768 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC charged that Pretium’s Leipsic, Ohio, facility maintained a discriminatory practice of not hiring or promoting females to fill machine operator positions. Female employees who expressed interest in the position were told women were
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EEOC Sues Hobe Sound Nursing Home for Refusal to Hire Haitian Applicant
MIAMI – A Hobe Sound, Florida residential assisted living and rehabilitation facility violated federal law when it subjected a Haitian to national origin discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC lawsuit, a Haitian applicant applied for an open nursing home administrator position at The Terrace at Hobe Sound. After interviewing for the position with the then-acting administrator, she was offered the job and a
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Parris Pizza Company to Pay $150,000 to Settle EEOC Race Harassment Lawsuit
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Parris Pizza Company, LLC, the former owner of a Domino’s Pizza franchise in Olean, New York, has agreed to pay $150,000 and provide other relief to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, beginning in at least 2019, Parris Pizza permitted Black employees to be harassed by White coworkers. The mistreatment included two shift managers’
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Inspira Medical Centers to Pay $100,000 to Conciliate EEOC Discrimination Finding
PHILADELPHIA -- Inspira Medical Centers, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, also known as Inspira Health Network, which owns and operates several hospitals and numerous health centers in New Jersey, has entered into conciliation agreements with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve six religious discrimination charges, the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC, all six charges were the result of Inspira denying employees a religious exemption to its mandatory influenza vaccination
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EEOC Sues Triple Canopy, Inc. for Religious Discrimination and Retaliation
WASHINGTON– Triple Canopy, Inc. (Triple Canopy) a Reston, Virginia-based company that provides protective services to federal agencies, violated federal law by refusing to allow a male employee to have a beard as a religious accommodation, and not scheduling him for work after he complained to the EEOC, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a suit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, despite the employee’s repeated explanations that he did not belong
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Lacey’s Place to Pay $92,964 to Settle EEOC Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
CHICAGO – Lacey’s Place LLC Series Midlothian, doing business as Lacey’s Place, which owns and operates more than 30 video gaming parlors in Illinois, will pay $92,964 and furnish other relief to settle a pay discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to EEOC’s lawsuit, female district managers were paid less than their male coworkers with similar experience and education since at least
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PFG Customized Distribution to Pay $709,971 to Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
INDIANAPOLIS —Kenneth O. Lester Company, Inc., doing business as PFG Customized Distribution – Indiana, will pay $709,971 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from at least 2018, PFG Customized Distribution refused to hire female job applicants for order selector positions because of their sex at its Kendallville
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EEOC Sues Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove for Multiple Forms of Harassment
MINNEAPOLIS – R & G Endeavors, Inc., a fast-food franchisee doing business as Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, violated federal law when it subjected employees to a hostile work environment based on race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two lawsuits filed today. The litigation also charges the Minnesota company with denying a long-serving employee with a disability equal pay and pay raises because of his disability
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EEOC Sues Tenet Healthcare / BBH SBMC / Shelby Baptist Medical Center for Disability Discrimination
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its subsidiary, BBH SBMC, LLC, doing business as Shelby Baptist Medical Center, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with medical restrictions and then firing her in retaliation for requesting that accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s complaint, a psychiatric technician at Tenet’s Alabaster, Alabama Shelby Baptist Medical Center
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Registration Open for EEOC’s 2023 EXCEL Training Conference
WASHINGTON – Registration for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 26th Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference is now open at: https://excel2023.vfairs.com/
EXCEL 2023 will be in-person and will run July 30-Aug. 2 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington. The theme for this year’s conference, “Marking Milestones: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” commemorates significant anniversaries in 2023, such as the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the passage of the 1963
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EEOC Sues Conshohocken-Based Neuromonitoring Company for Pay Discrimination and Retaliation
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania health care services company violated federal civil rights laws by paying a female technician less than males on the basis of sex and by retaliating against her for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit it filed today.
Conshohocken-based Medsurant Holdings, LLC, which operates under the trade name Medsurant Health and owns Medsurant, LLC and Medsurant Operating, LLC (collectively “Medsurant Health”), provides intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring services
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Kaiser to Pay $140,000 to Settle EEOC Racial Harassment Lawsuit
TACOMA, Wash. — Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington has agreed to pay $140,000 to an African American employee at its Tacoma Medical Center and provide other relief to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Kaiser permitted an African American employee to be harassed by her coworker’s repeated use of a version of the n-word, even after
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EEOC Sues Corner Bar for Pregnancy Discrimination
AUSTIN, Texas – Corner Bar, which operates on South Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas, discriminated against a female bartender by reducing her hours and terminating her because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, the female bartender told her managers she was pregnant. Soon after her pregnancy became visible, her hours were cut and she was taken off the closing
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Shepherd Electric to Pay $185,806 to Settle EEOC Race Discrimination and Retaliation Suit
BALTIMORE – Shepherd Electric Co., Inc., a wholesale electrical distributor that operates in the Baltimore/Washington area, will pay $185,806 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a race 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, Shepherd Electric discriminated against two Black managers at the company’s Laurel, Maryland warehouse. After one of the managers complained the company disciplined Black employees
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Broadleaf and Conduent to Pay $120,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
NEW YORK – Conduent State and Local Solutions, Inc., a business services provider that operates the New York E-ZPass toll collection system, and Broadleaf Results, Inc., an employment agency, will collectively pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee was placed by Broadleaf to work as a customer service representative at
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Mechanical Design Systems, Inc. to Pay $210,000 to Settle EEOC Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
BALTIMORE -- Mechanical Design Systems, Inc. (MDS), a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) design and installation services company with offices in Clinton, Maryland and operating in the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, has agreed to pay $210,000 and provide other relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the federal agency announced today.
According to EEOC’s lawsuit, female project managers were paid less than male colleagues