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RENO, Nev. — A third-party logistics company based in Reno, agreed to pay more than $396,000 to settle a 2025 charge alleging religious harassment claims investigated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe that soon after hire, an employee at ITS Logistics faced harassment based on his Jewish identity from co-workers and managers. This included frequent comments based on offensive stereotypes

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

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

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

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

MILWAUKEE — Crystal Ridge Ski Area, doing business as The Rock Snowpark, a winter sports park and summer events venue in Franklin, Wisconsin, will pay $20,000 and be subject to two years of monitoring by the EEOC to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The suit alleged that The Rock Snowpark fired a Christian employee in June 2023 because of his religious

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

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

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

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

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

MEMPHIS — Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA), a research, engineering and consulting company based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, agreed to resolve charges of discrimination filed with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $5 million and other relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC received multiple charges of discrimination alleging that BEA denied employees religious and/or disability accommodations to the company’s vaccine mandate policy. The EEOC’s systemic investigation found reasonable cause to believe that

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

ATLANTA — Gravity Autos, a conglomerate of car dealerships with locations in Georgia, Florida and Illinois, violated federal law when it denied a reasonable religious accommodation to a sales employee and then fired him for opposing the unlawful denial, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee, who belongs to a Hebrew Israelite congregation, informed his manager when he was hired that he

LOS ANGELES — Kaiser Permanente, a national health insurance and healthcare company headquartered in Oakland, California, resolved 12 charges of discrimination filed with multiple offices at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $358,000 and injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charges of discrimination alleged that Kaiser denied employees religious accommodations to the company’s vaccine mandate policy. The EEOC investigated the allegations and found reasonable cause to believe that Kaiser violated

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

TULSA, Okla. — A G Equipment Company, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma compressor packaging manufacturer, will pay $4,250,000 to over 40 workers and provide other relief to settle a religious and disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, in the fall of 2021, A G Equipment mandated that all employees receive a COVID-19 vaccination and told workers no exemptions would be