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A Houston-based delivery company doing business in Arizona violated federal law by subjecting female employees to egregious verbal and sexual harassment and then punishing them for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

Fast Food Eatery Subjected Teenaged Female Employees to Severe Harassment, Federal Agency Charges

INDIANAPOLIS  – A Terre Haute, Ind., fast food restaurant violated federal law when it subjected its female employees to a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC's suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sidal

Two Teens Assaulted at Memphis Store, Federal Agency Charged

   

MEMPHIS – Taco Bell Corporation will pay a total of $350,000 in monetary damages to two young women to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  The EEOC had charged that two teenaged workers were assaulted at a Memphis Taco Bell.

       

The EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. 2:07-cv-02579, filed

Company Fired Woman Who Complained About Sexual Assaults, Federal Agency Charges

PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Plastics Manufacturing, Inc. unlawfully subjected a class of women to egregious sexual harassment and fired an employee who opposed the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC's suit, Veronica Jalpa and a class of female workers were subjected to severe and pervasive sexual harassment by a company supervisor at Pittsburgh

Female Employees at Delray Beach Construction Companies Subjected to Sexual Advances and Tales of Sexual Exploits, EEOC Charged

     

MIAMI – Delray Beach-based engineering and construction companies Cobra Construction, Inc. and Cobra Pavers and Engineering, Inc. violated federal law when they sexually harassed female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.

       

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Cobra's managers told female employees

Home Improvement Giant Subjected Young Workers to Physical and Verbal Abuse, Retaliation

     

SEATTLE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major settlement of a discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Inc. for $1.72 million and significant remedial relief on behalf of three employees in their twenties who were subjected to a pervasive sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against

EEOC Says Women Subjected to Groping and Sexual Advances by Male Managers

SAN    DIEGO -- The  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a class  litigation settlement against Hometown Buffet, Inc., on behalf of teens and  Latinas who were subjected to a sexually hostile workplace, including verbal  and physical abuse, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Specifically, the EEOC alleged that  Hometown Buffet failed to prevent and tolerated a

L&T Group of Companies Charged with Numerous Types of Employment Discrimination

     

SAIPAN, CNMI – L&T Group of Companies, Ltd., the largest employer and conglomerate of garment manufacturers in Saipan, has agreed to pay $1.7 million and to provide far reaching and significant injunctive relief to settle a series of lawsuits filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that charged the company with retaliation and discrimination based on national origin, pregnancy

Springfield Construction Company Subjected Worker to Crude, Obscene Verbal Abuse by Supervisor, Federal Agency Charges

SPRINGFIELD, Ky. – A Springfield, Ky., construction company violated federal law by subjecting a male employee to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. #:09-cv-427-S in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Louisville Division), Hayden Brothers Contracting, Inc. allowed a

Women at EPI's Mississippi Plant Had to Quit to Escape Abuse, Federal Agency Charges

OXFORD,  Miss. – A St. Louis-based plastic injection  molding company violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees  at its Sherman, Miss., plant to a sexually hostile work  environment and forcing several of them to quit their jobs, the U.S. Equal  Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, EPI Advanced, LLC

Popular Banquet Facility and Country Club Routinely Harassed Female Employees, Refused to Hire Blacks and Sued Victims as Retaliation, Federal Agency Charged

     

CHICAGO – A popular Hickory Hills, Ill., banquet facility and country club will pay up to $690,000 to settle two lawsuits, charging sex and race discrimination and retaliation, brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

           

Federal District Judge

Latina Workers at Oregon Nursery Sexually Harassed, Threatened, and One Woman Repeatedly Raped, Federal Agency Charges

     

SEATTLE — A  Molalla, Ore., nursery violated federal law when it allowed female employees to  be severely sexually harassed and retaliated against the women and male  co-workers after they reported the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. This is the agency’s third such case against Oregon agricultural 

         

PHOENIX – An eight person federal jury has returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a sexual harassment lawsuit against AutoZone, Inc., the Memphis, Tenn.-based national auto parts retail giant, the EEOC announced today.

           

The jury ruled that AutoZone violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting employee Stacy Wing to a

Yarn Company Suspended Woman for Complaining About Abuse, Federal Agency Charged

     

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A North Carolina yarn  manufacturing company violated federal law by subjecting an employee to sexual  harassment and then retaliating against her for com­plaining about it, the U.S.  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed  today.

     

In its suit, the EEOC said that from around April 2007 to December 2007,  Tuscarora Yarns

EEOC Obtains Favorable Jury Verdict in Lawsuit Against Faulkner Company

 

OXFORD, Miss. -- A federal jury here returned a $225,000 verdict Friday against Hill Brothers Construction Company and Engineering Company, Inc. (Hill Brothers) in a rare same-sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of male employees who were sexually harassed by other men.   

The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Hill Brothers discriminated against Scott Beasley

Second Recent Suit by Federal Agency for Employment Bias on Las Vegas Strip

           

LAS VEGAS – A female employee of Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip was subjected to physical and verbal sexual harassment and her co-workers were severely retaliated against for opposing the unlawful conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court.  The charging parties

 

EEOC and Plaintiff's Counsel Score Victory for Latina Farmworker             Sexually Assaulted By Her Supervisor

                               

Fresno, Calif. -  In a trial ending today, a jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Fresno returned a $994,000 verdict in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Olivia Tamayo

                   

Federal Agency Lawsuit Based Upon Charges Filed by 10 Employees Against 'Family' Restaurants in Matteson, Mattoon and Bloomington, Illinois

   

CHICAGO - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a sexual and racial harassment class lawsuit in federal court here against Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., CBRL Group, Inc., and CBOCS West, Inc. (collectively, "Cracker Barrel").

   

The EEOC's lawsuit

Suit Says Male Workers Were Groped, Propositioned, and Sexually Assaulted by Male Supervisor

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit against global food giant Kraft Foods North America, Inc. and its subsidiary Nabisco, Inc. under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on behalf of a class of male employees who were subjected to egregious same-sex harassment and retaliation by their male supervisor at a sales and

MILWAUKEE - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $1,525,000 settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against DeCoster Farms on behalf of women who alleged they were subjected to sexual harassment (including rape), abuse, and retaliation by certain supervisory workers at DeCoster's Wright County, Iowa, plants.

A Consent Decree was filed with the U.S. District Court today for its approval of this

                                     

CHICAGO  -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a major settlement with the Ford Motor Company providing nearly $8 million in damages to be paid to female employees alleged to have been victimized by sexual harassment, racial harassment, harassment on the basis of sex, and retaliation for complaining to management about

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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9-7-99

CHICAGO -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a major settlement with the Ford Motor Company providing nearly $8 million in damages to be paid to female employees alleged to have been victimized by sexual harassment, racial harassment, harassment on the basis of sex, and retaliation for complaining to management about the harassment.

Ford has also agreed to train all of

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE           CONTACT: H. Joan Ehrlich, Director September 30, 2002                          Office of Communications                                              and Legislative Affairs                                             EEOC Headquarters                                             (202) 663-4900                                             (713) 817-0991                                                                                          Jean P. Kamp                                             Regional Attorney                                             EEOC Milwaukee District Office                                             (414) 297-1860                                              Dennis R. McBride                                             Senior Trial Attorney                                             EEOC Milwaukee District Office                                             (414) 297-4188                                             TTY: (414) 297-1115 

PRESS RELEASE
9-30-02

MILWAUKEE - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $1,525,000 settlement of an employment

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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PRESS RELEASE
9-28-09

Fast Food Eatery Subjected Teenaged Female Employees to Severe Harassment, Federal Agency Charges

INDIANAPOLIS – A Terre Haute, Ind., fast food restaurant violated federal law when it subjected its female employees to a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the