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SAN ANTONIO — Benson Enterprises, Inc., the operator of automotive dealerships including Ingram Park Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in San Antonio, will pay $430,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex-based harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from January to June 2021, a male manager for Ingram Park Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram created and maintained a hostile

OKLAHOMA CITY –— Sunrooms and More Design Center, LLC, an Edmond, Oklahoma home improvement and design company, will pay $150,000 to three former employees and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since November 2021, one of the company’s co-owners harassed female employees almost daily, including making sexually-charged comments and touching female

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Birchstone Management, a warehousing and logistics management company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, agreed to provide $55,000 to a female job applicant and $445,000 for a class settlement fund following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found that Birchstone Management turned away a qualified worker seeking a job at the company’s Spokane Valley location as a pallet repairer solely because

NEW YORK — Hungry Ghost Tribeca, LLC, doing business as Hungry Ghost Coffee, a New York City café chain, will pay $22,500 and provide other relief 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 lawsuit, a Muslim employee worked as a barista, and as part of his religious practice, fasts from sunrise to sunset during the Islamic holy month

MIAMI — El Dorado Furniture Corporation, a Florida furniture company operating 19 retail stores across the state, agreed to pay $1.3 million to a class of white, black and other non-Hispanic job applicants to resolve a federal hiring discrimination investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause that the company engaged in a companywide practice of favoring Hispanic applicants for all positions and

MILWAUKEE — Generac Power Systems, a Wisconsin generator manufacturer, reached an agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve for monetary and injunctive relief a religious accommodation charge involving an employee’s request to use biological pronouns for another employee, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s reasonable cause finding, Generac violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it did not fully engage in the reasonable accommodation

HOUSTON — A large healthcare provider specializing in pediatric care and services will pay $650,000 and provide other relief to resolve a charge involving an employee’s religious objection to performing work related to sex-rejecting medical procedures, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

The religious discrimination charge alleged that the hospital violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide an employee with a religious accommodation from providing

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

DENVER — Mile Hi Companies, a Denver-based distribution group for food and paper products primarily in the Rocky Mountains region, will pay $1,500,000 and provide other relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in September 2024, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Mile Hi Companies unlawfully denied employment opportunities to black, female and Afghan job applicants since 2015. The EEOC charged that

RENO, Nev. — Blue Eagle Contracting, Inc., a Grass Valley, California-based bulk mail delivery contractor for the U.S. Postal Service, will pay $60,000 and implement other reforms to settle a religious accommodation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit filed earlier this year, Blue Eagle failed to accommodate a Christian driver’s religious practice of attending church services on Sunday mornings by failing

LAS VEGAS — Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee who requested to wear a headscarf in observance of her religious faith, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a manager demanded that a cage cashier remove the headscarf she wore as part of her Messianic Jewish religious practice and sent her home without

MINNEAPOLIS — Mayo Clinic, a non-profit operator of hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) religious discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Mayo Clinic unlawfully denied a Rochester, Minnesota employee’s request to be exempted from the provider’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy as a religious accommodation.

The employee, a security guard in a non-medical role

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Mercy Health Physicians Youngstown, LLC and Bon Secours Mercy Health, Inc. (Mercy) in Youngstown violated federal law by subjecting a Jewish orthopedic surgeon to unfavorable terms and conditions of employment and firing him because of his religion and race, shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit said the surgeon had a successful practice

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Several subsidiaries of North American Stamping Group (NASG), a major international manufacturer of car parts, will pay $620,000 and permit two years of monitoring by the EEOC to settle the sex harassment and discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its suit, the EEOC alleged that since at least 2018 through 2025 NASG discriminated against more than a dozen women at the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Blue Bell Creameries, Inc., a Brenham, Texas-based frozen snack manufacturer and distributor with a production facility in Sylacauga, Alabama, unlawfully terminated a Jewish body shop technician soon after he requested a beard‑related religious accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Blue Bell fired the employee in March 2025, less than a month after he refused to shave his beard due

WASHINGTON — National Food Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Design Cuisine and Elior, Inc., operating as Elior North America, collectively a food services company providing event catering services in the Washington area, violated federal law when they refused to hire a Muslim applicant because she wore a hijab, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in October 2024, when the woman arrived to her

DURHAM, N.C. — N.C. Detective Agency, a Durham-based security company, will pay $65,231 in compensatory damages and back pay, and take other corrective actions to voluntarily resolve a religious discrimination investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe that an employee requested to be excused from work due to a Muslim religious holiday, but the request was denied. The company was

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the filing of a federal court action to enforce an administrative subpoena issued against the City and County of San Francisco.

The EEOC issued the subpoena as part of its investigation into a charge of discrimination alleging race and sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including a former employee’s claims of disparate treatment and constructive

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