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CHICAGO – Admiral Theatre, Inc., an exotic dance club providing adult entertainment services, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit for sex and race discrimination and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Admiral violated federal law by subjecting female entertainers to hostile and dangerous working conditions where they faced sexual harassment, including egregious physical attacks and assaults

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

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Quality Restaurant Concepts, LLC (QRC), owner and operator of approximately 60 Applebee’s-branded restaurants across the southeastern U.S., will pay $270,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment, constructive discharge and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company failed to take appropriate action to address a sexually hostile work environment that harmed at least six

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Advanced Technology Group, Inc, (ATG), a project-based construction services company based in Oregon with jobsites nationwide, violated federal law by allowing harassment of American workers at its Rio Rancho, New Mexico location and firing at least one American employee because he complained about the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, around June 2023, at least two ATG employees were

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

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sofidel America Corp., an international manufacturer of paper products with a plant in Inola, Oklahoma, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Sofidel allowed a male employee to sexually harass a young female coworker for more than six months, including making lewd sexual

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Lori’s Gift’s, Inc., a nationwide chain of hospital gift shops, will pay $600,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, Lori’s Gifts engaged in companywide unlawful employment practices since at least 2018, including using unlawful screening criteria and preemployment inquiries, and refused to hire qualified individuals with disabilities based on

LOS ANGELES – Metro Eighteen, Inc., a San Francisco-based home electronics installation company, will pay $70,098 and provide other relief to settle a race harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a former employee, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a black employee at Metro Eighteen’s Los Angeles location was subjected to racially charged language and conduct by co-workers. He complained to

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Personnel Staffing Inc., an agency providing staffing services in more than 15 states across the southeastern U.S., will pay $155,000 to a class of female employees, conciliating an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found that Personnel Staffing discriminated against a class of female workers between Aug. 14, 2020 and Aug. 1, 2023, based on their sex, when the company failed

CHICAGO – Silver Cross Hospital, based in New Lenox, Illinois, violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee who requested to be exempt from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine because of her religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a certified surgical technologist first requested a religious accommodation from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in August 2021

LOS ANGELES – Justin Vineyards & Winery LLC, a Paso Robles, California winery featuring a Michelin-starred restaurant, tasting rooms and accommodations and global food and beverage company The Wonderful Company LLC, will pay $1.49 million and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least August 2017, the companies allowed a

HOUSTON – Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants around the country, including multiple locations in the Houston area, will pay $35,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex 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, a former female assistant manager of a Pizza Hut restaurant in Porter, Texas

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville Comedy Club will pay $372,500 in monetary relief and furnish extensive injunctive relief to resolve a finding of sex discrimination and retaliation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a conciliation agreement, the federal agency announced today.

The conciliation follows an EEOC investigation into charges where the agency found that employees were subjected to sexual harassment by a manager. The investigation also found that the club failed to comply

DENVER – Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Company, also known as ASWO, a global recreational gear company with employees throughout the United States, will pay $350,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit alleging unlawful retaliation under the Age Discrimination and Employment Act (ADEA), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Boulder, Colorado-based employee complained multiple times to human resources and management about age discrimination during

NEW YORK – The Young Men’s and Women’s Hebrew Association (YMHA/YWHA) of Washington Heights and Inwood agreed to provide $100,200 to a former employee to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found that the YMHA violated federal law when it failed to provide a Christian employee with a religious accommodation to allow her to attend Sunday services

TAMPA, Fla. – Rivers Edge Enterprises, LLC, doing business as River’s Edge Bar and Grill in Gibsonton, Florida, will pay $65,000 to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that one of the restaurant’s owners, who owns the bar with two of his brothers, would engage in sexually charged behavior; ask women about sexual acts; show

RALEIGH, N.C. – Rex Healthcare, Inc., a private, non-profit health care provider in Raleigh, will pay $150,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) religious accommodation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Rex Healthcare unlawfully denied a remote employee’s request to be exempted from the provider’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy as a religious accommodation.

Although in 2019 and 2020 Rex Healthcare approved the employee’s

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – South Valley Care Center, LLC, a long-term care facility in Albuquerque, agreed to pay $75,000 to settle an age 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, a South Valley supervisor harassed and mocked older workers in the facility’s laundry department because of their ages and treated them less favorably than younger workers. Older workers complained about

WASHINGTON – Security Assurance Management, Inc. (SAM, Inc.), a security firm operating in the Washington, D.C. area, will pay $45,000 to settle a pregnancy and sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, SAM, Inc. removed a special police officer from her job assignment because its client did not want her reporting to the jobsite while pregnant. When the employee returned to

FLINT, Mich. – Mid-Michigan Home Health & Hospice LLC, an in-home health care provider of bathing assistance to clients in central Michigan, violated federal law when it did not assign home visits in Grand Blanc, Michigan to a black certified nurse assistant (CNA) because of her race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Mid-Michigan hired a black female as a CNA in April

PHILADELPHIA – Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, collectively a Pennsylvania health care system, will pay $450,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Geisinger engaged in policies and practices since January 2018 denying reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities, including job-protected leave and reassignment without

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – StoneMor, Inc., a cemetery and funeral management company, violated federal law when it discriminated against black employees, and retaliated against a supervisor after failing to stop complaints about racial discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, StoneMor managers at a Memphis location restricted all black employees from a breakroom while allowing access to white employees. The company also fired a

DENVER – Midwest Farms, LLC, and Midwest Capital Services, LLC, an agribusiness and related company operating several farms in rural Colorado, will pay $334,500 and provide other equitable relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a group of female farmworkers were repeatedly sexually harassed by a male employee who made regular sexual comments, propositioned female employees

CHICAGO – Hotel Equities Group, LLC, a full-service hotel management company providing management, development, and consulting services throughout the United States, violated federal law when it failed to provide pregnancy accommodations to one employee and religious accommodations to another, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2023, a pregnant front desk clerk at the company’s Hilton-branded hotel in Oak Lawn, Illinois requested the