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HOUSTON – Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay $175,000 and provide other relief pursuant to a consent decree entered by a federal district court on July 7, resolving a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The complaint alleged that the company denied employment to a class of individuals it unlawfully regarded as disabled.

According to the EEOC’s

TRENTON, n.j. – Hatzel & Buehler, Inc., a commercial electrical contractor with branch locations in eight states and the District of Columbia, violated federal law by subjecting a class of workers aged 40 and older to discriminatory hiring and recruitment for positions in its New Jersey branch, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least November 2020, Hatzel & Buehler has

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

ENCINITAS, Calif. – Swami’s Café and Honey’s Bistro, a chain of casual counter and table-service restaurants, violated federal law by allowing a class of female employees to be subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, beginning as early as 2019, nine locations of the San Diego-based Swami’s Café and Honey’s Bistro allowed a class of young female employees

CHICAGO, Ill. – Sunnybrook Education Association, IEA-NEA, (“Sunnybrook Union”), a labor union representing teachers and educational support personnel in the Sunnybrook School District, violated federal civil rights law by blocking the promotion of an African American custodian to the role of head custodian because of his race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC said that Sunnybrook Union grieved the promotion of a Black employee of Sunnybrook School

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. – R&L Carriers, Inc. and R&L Carriers, Shared Services, LLC (R&L Carriers), a nationwide trucking company headquartered in Wilmington, Ohio, will pay $1,250,000 to a class of female applicants and take steps to prevent future discrimination against female applicants to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, R&L Carriers, which specializes in less-than-a-load delivery, discriminated against women in

LAS VEGAS – DTG Las Vegas, LLC; Fifth Street Gaming, LLC; and DTG Las Vegas Manager, LLC (collectively doing business as “Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino”) violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to a class of employees with disabilities, interfering with employees’ rights, and retaliating against those who exercised their rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, since at least 2018

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina-based Subway franchises Bilal & Aaya Subway, Inc., H & F Subway, Inc. and L & H Subway, Inc. (Subway) violated federal law when they subjected employees to a hostile work environment, discharged Black employees and discriminated against applicants in the hiring process because of their race and color, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from October 2018 to

DENVER – Emergency transport companies Global Medical Response, Inc. (“GMR”), American Medical Response, Inc. (“AMR”), and AMR’s subsidiaries located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, violated federal law by discriminating and retaliating against a nationwide class of applicants and employee first responders with sincerely-held religious beliefs and disabilities that required them to wear beards in conflict with GMR and AMR’s policy against facial hair, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed

LAS VEGAS – Focus Plumbing, LLC agreed to pay $500,000 and along with Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door, & Trim, LLC, agreed to furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC alleged that since 2017, Focus subjected a class of monolingual Spanish-speaking female employees to a hostile work

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against the national staffing agency BaronHR, LLC and Radiant Services Corporation, a commercial laundry facility that serves the hospitality industry in Southern California, for discriminatory denial of employment based on race, national origin, and sex, the federal agency announced today

The EEOC charged that since 2015, BaronHR and Radiant failed to recruit, refer, and hire Black, Asian, and White applicants for low-skill positions

DALLAS – MEMPHIS – LITTLE ROCK – Two Chili’s Grill & Bar Restaurants in Arkansas and Texas subjected female employees, including teens, to sexually hostile work environments in violation of federal law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in lawsuits filed in Little Rock and Dallas today.

Brinker Arkansas, Inc., doing business as Chili’s Grill & Bar in Benton, Ark., violated federal law when it subjected a class of female teens to sexual harassment

LOS ANGELES – Justin Vineyards & Winery LLC, a wine production company headquartered in Paso Robles, California, and its parent company, The Wonderful Company LLC, headquartered in Los Angeles, violated federal law by allowing a class of female employees to be subjected to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, beginning at least as early as 2017, male managers at Justin Vineyards

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – T.M.F. Mooresville, LLC, operating in Mooresville, North Carolina as Hampton Inn & Suites Mooresville / Lake Norman, has agreed to pay $60,000 and provide other non-monetary relief to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, from at least April 2017 through October 2018, a Black housekeeper employed by the company created a racially hostile work environment for

NEW YORK – Coughlin, Inc., a Vermont-based company that owns and operates ten McDonald’s franchise restaurants in Vermont and New Hampshire, will pay $1,600,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the State of Vermont, and Plaintiff-Intervenor, the Estate of Jennie Lumbra, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, employees at the Randolph, Vermont McDonald’s location were subjected

WASHINGTON – The Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) welcomed the President’s signing of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, H.R. 4445, into law today at a White House ceremony.

The new law amends the Federal Arbitration Act and allows employees subject to pre-dispute mandatory arbitration agreements to pursue in court their claims related to sexual assault or sexual harassment. The law allows workers to choose how

WHEELING, W.V. – Route 22 Sports Bar, Inc. and Crazy Mexican Restaurant & Grill, LLC, two restaurants in Weirton, W.V., will pay $217,500 and provide significant equitable relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation suit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the male spouse of an owner of the two restaurants, who, the EEOC alleged, possessed broad authority over the businesses and their employees, subjected a

CHICAGO – Aerotek, a national temporary placement agency, has agreed to pay $3.525 million to resolve federal systemic investigations relating to the hiring and placement of individuals assigned to work at Aerotek’s clients, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC, Aerotek failed to recruit and denied assignments/placements and/or hiring to individuals based on age (over 40), sex and race. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company violated federal civil rights laws when it subjected Black laborers to a racially hostile work environment and then fired some of them after they complained about the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, from at least May 2018 through the fall of 2019, while Whiting-Turner worked as a general contractor on the Google data center

LAS VEGAS – AMTCR, Inc., AMTCR Nevada, Inc., and AMTCR California, LLC violated federal law by allowing a class of male and female workers to be subjected to egregious sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. Headquartered in Kingman, Ariz., AMTCR is a franchise owner currently operating approximately 22 McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California.

According to the lawsuit, the federal agency alleges that since at

LAS VEGAS –  Focus Plumbing, LLC, Focus Electric, LLC, Focus Concrete, LLC, Focus Fire Protection, LLC, and Focus Framing, Door & Trim (collectively dba “Focus Companies Group of Nevada”) violated federal law by allowing a class of female workers to be subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2017, Focus allowed a class of female workers

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

BIRMINIGHAM, Ala. – Nashville-based NDI Office Furniture, LLC, the largest office furniture distributor in the Southeastern and Midwest United States, has agreed to pay $150,000 and furnish other significant relief to settle a federal lawsuit charging sex discrimination and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, in September 2015, a female applicant attempted to apply for an open position at NDI's Birmingham

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