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WASHINGTON — Computer giant Apple Inc. will pay $150,000 and update its religious observance policy, among other reforms, to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Apple failed to accommodate a Reston, Virginia employee’s need to be off from Friday sundown through sundown on Saturday in observance of the Jewish Sabbath. Apple rejected the employee’s request because it

WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced an updated Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026-2030, effective immediately.

The plan provides a comprehensive framework for the agency’s operations, charting a clear and ambitious path toward fulfilling the EEOC’s mission to prevent and remedy unlawful employment discrimination and advance equal employment opportunity for all. By setting strategic priorities and aligning resources, the plan empowers the agency to respond decisively to evolving challenges

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Healthcare Management, Inc. (THM), a provider of administrative, purchasing, technology and human resources services to health care communities, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race, national origin, age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that THM refused to promote a highly qualified 58-year-old Asian American doctor and instead hired a younger

DALLAS — KLLM Transport Services LLC, a nationwide trucking company, and its subsidiary, KLLM Driving Academy, Inc., which operate driver training academies in Lancaster, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting female student drivers to sex discrimination through several unlawful policies and practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, KLLM subjected their female student drivers to overtly discriminatory training conditions because

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama recycler TCI of Alabama, LLC, will pay $2.6 million and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that TCI intentionally violated federal law by engaging in a long-standing pattern of refusing to hire female laborers at its Pell City, Alabama recycling plant, potentially impacting thousands of women. According to the complaint, starting in 2006 when the

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted today to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind the requirement for employers and other covered entities to file an annual report with the EEOC summarizing aggregate data on their employees’ race and sex (reports known respectively as the EEO-1, EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, EEO-5, and EEO-6 reports or EEO Data Reports), and the recordkeeping requirements related to these reports.

The EEOC’s regulations currently

OKLAHOMA CITY — Paycom Payroll, LLC, an Oklahoma software company specializing in payroll and human capital software, violated federal law when it failed to provide effective reasonable accommodations to an employee with a life‑threatening food allergy and fired her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit said that shortly after being hired, an employee with a severe allergy repeatedly suffered anaphylactic reactions from exposure to

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted yesterday to rescind a pair of approximately 40-year-old agency policy documents: the agency interpretive guidelines titled “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended” (Affirmative Action Guidelines) and the related “Compliance Manual Section 607 on Affirmative Action” (Compliance Manual on Affirmative Action).

The Commission found that the Affirmative Action Guidelines ran afoul of the text of Title VII

DENVER — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging that related companies Triad Solution Services (Triad), Pro Cleaning Services, and All Cleaning Service, LLC engaged in a multi-year hiring scheme which unlawfully excluded qualified American and non-Hispanic applicants from janitorial jobs across Colorado.

The suit alleged the companies favored workers of Latin American origin in order to maintain a labor force they could more easily intimidate and

ATLANTA — Reynolds IGA Foodliner, Inc., owner and operator of a chain of restaurants and grocery stores, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate a Piggly Wiggly employee’s request to refrain from working on Sundays, then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee worked as a deli clerk at Reynolds IGA Foodliner’s Piggly Wiggly store in Hazlehurst

HOUSTON — The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), a university health system in Galveston, Texas, violated federal law when it paid a female employee lower wages than it paid her male counterpart for performing substantially equal work because of the female worker’s sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from October 2023 until about January 2026, UTMB paid a female solutions architect

BOSTON — LeachGarner, Inc., a metallurgical manufacturer and supplier, will pay $2.8 million and provide other relief to settle a federal sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged that for years LeachGarner routinely assigned female manufacturing employees at its Attleboro, Massachusetts facility to lower paying jobs. Manufacturing positions were held nearly exclusively by men and paid more than those held by women, even though the male

BOSTON – The Daly/Kenney Group, LLC and 15 related companies, owners and operators of Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, will pay $250,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit recently filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since approximately March 2013, the Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees had a policy which refused to provide reasonable accommodations to employees

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today approved a new National Enforcement Plan (NEP) for fiscal years 2025-2029.

The NEP replaces the agency’s fiscal year 2024-2028 Strategic Enforcement Plan. The NEP helps guide the EEOC’s work through all of the agency’s activities, including outreach, public education, technical assistance, enforcement, and litigation. It also reaffirms the agency’s three-pronged approach to eliminating discrimination in the workplace: prevention through education and outreach; the voluntary resolution

WASHINGTON – Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced two new appointments to the agency’s senior leadership team.

The new appointments are Heather Olowski as the EEOC’s Legal Counsel, head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), and Kelley McLean as Principal Legislative Director in the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs (OCLA). Both bring deep expertise to the agency and will play a critical role in executing the

CHICAGO — Northwestern Medical Group (Northwestern Medicine) agreed to pay $325,000 in monetary relief to a class of employees denied vaccine exemptions because of their religious beliefs or practices and to provide other relief following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The agreement resolves charges filed with the EEOC alleging discrimination against employees based on their religion when it denied reasonable accommodation requests to employees who requested a faith-based exemption to

PHOENIX – Central Transport, LLC, a nationwide trucking company based in Warren, Michigan with over 200 regional and local facilities, will pay $5.5 million to resolve a federal lawsuit charging the company with violating federal law when it intentionally refused to hire qualified female truck drivers throughout the country, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Central Transport, for at least the past ten years, repeatedly passed over

AUSTIN, Texas — Hatch Trick, Inc., a Chick-fil-A franchisee operating multiple locations in Austin, violated federal law by refusing to reasonably accommodate an employee’s request to refrain from working on Saturdays in observance of her Sabbath day and instead fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee, who managed Hatch Trick’s delivery drivers at one of its Austin locations, is a

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Magnera Corporation, formerly known as Berry Global, Inc., a Fortune 500 global manufacturer and marketer of plastic packaging products headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, will pay $130,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in January 2022, Berry Global discriminated against an employee at its Old Hickory, Tennessee location by

DENVER – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the filing of a federal court action to enforce two administrative subpoenas issued against Psychological Dimensions, LLC, a company which conducts psychological assessments for job applicants with the Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) and the Board of County Commissions for Arapahoe County (BCCAC).

The EEOC issued the subpoenas as part of its investigation into the hiring practices of ACSO and BCCAC under Title VII of

WASHINGTON – Over the past 15 months of the second Trump Administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the leadership of Chair Andrea Lucas has undertaken exhaustive efforts to restore evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws on behalf of all Americans, including by delivering on Administration civil rights enforcement priorities and implementing key deliverables entrusted to the EEOC in 11 different Executive Orders.[i]

The majority of the EEOC’s law enforcement work

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed a second action in federal court to enforce a third subpoena it issued during its investigation into claims that Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) engaged in discriminatory employment practices, including discriminatory interviewing, hiring, promoting, or classifying of Native American applicants and employees.

In August 2024, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas filed a Commissioner’s charge against GMCS, which is comprised of multiple

WASHINGTON — Today, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias published a report detailing how the Biden Administration’s prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government, in accordance with Executive Order 14202. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) worked closely with the Department of Justice to advance this significant effort.

The 200-page report collects the detailed findings of the seventeen federal agencies on the Task Force, as well as other

FLORENCE, S.C. – Florence CK, LLC, a Comfort Keepers franchisee providing in-home caregiving in Florence, agreed to pay $324,200 and furnish other relief to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its charge investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that the company, which provides services across South Carolina, discriminated against a new employee attending orientation in November 2023, violating four different