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McALLEN, Texas — Trancasa USA, Inc., a trucking and logistics company located in Pharr, Texas with locations in south and west Texas, violated federal law when it refused to hire a class of older applicants for driver positions because of their ages, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, since at least June 2023, Trancasa has refused to hire a class of older applicants for

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

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 — GSK Research Inc. and KGS Research, Inc., doing business as VRI Research, operators of a call center in Las Vegas, violated federal law when they discriminated against employees because of their disabilities and retaliated against them for requesting accommodations, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since August 2018 the defendants failed to observe their legal responsibilities under the Americans with

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

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

MOBILE, Ala. — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG), a shipbuilding company located in Panama City, Florida, violated federal law when it rescinded an Army veteran’s job offer shortly after learning of his Veterans Administration disability rating, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company gave him a job offer as a machinist in November 2024, conditional upon passing a pre-employment/post-offer physical examination. Although

RALEIGH, N.C. — Summit Hospitality Group, Ltd., doing business as Residence Inn Raleigh Downtown, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee’s disability and discharged him from employment when he was not able to return to work at 100% capacity, according to a lawsuit announced today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in March 2024, an employee who worked at the Residence Inn Raleigh Downtown as

GREENBELT, Md. — MedStar Health, Inc., a healthcare network in Maryland, and member hospital MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, Maryland, violated federal law by failing to hire an applicant with a disability and conducting an unlawful post-offer medical examination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in March 2024, MedStar extended a job offer to an applicant in an admitting registrar position

DALLAS — National discount retailer Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, Inc, violated federal law when it refused to hire a profoundly deaf applicant at its distribution warehouse in Lancaster, Texas because of her disability and subjected her to an overtly discriminatory qualification standard, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in May 2025, Ollie’s refused to hire the applicant, who had several years of experience working

ATLANTA — Exel Inc., doing business as DHL Supply Chain (USA), an international logistics company headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, will pay $80,000 and take remedial measures to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Exel denied a reasonable accommodation to a temporary employee at its Forest Park, Georgia logistics center who has sickle cell disorder, which can be triggered by extreme

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

BALTIMORE — American Multi-Cinema (AMC), a nationwide movie theatre chain, will pay $56,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, AMC, at its Owings Mills, Maryland location, violated federal law when it forced a 22-year employee with cerebral palsy to quit around September 2023 after it deprived him of reasonable accommodations

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

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco District of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) successfully conciliated two discrimination charges on behalf of pregnant women, the federal agency announced today.

In one case, the agency found that a pregnant worker at Vital Systems, a Reno-based company specializing in electronic equipment, was forced to ignore her doctor’s orders or face termination. Separately, another EEOC investigation showed that management at Condor Club refused to allow an employee

NORFOLK, Va. — Moore Comfort Home Care, LLC, a private home healthcare services provider to clients in Suffolk, Virginia and the surrounding areas, will pay $60,000 and provide other 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, between at least July 2022 through the fall of 2023, one of Moore’s owners subjected at least three women to

RALEIGH, N.C. — Butterball, LLC, a poultry processing company doing business in Mt. Olive, North Carolina, will pay $230,000 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, a long-term employee informed the company of her cancer diagnosis and need for intermittent leave to receive chemotherapy and recover from those treatments. The company referred the

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

MILWAUKEE — Lely North America, Inc., an international agricultural technology company headquartered in Pella, Iowa, agreed to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s charge investigation found that Lely violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it failed to provide a wage increase to a former employee on the basis of sex. The investigation also found that the

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced an agreement with the St. Louis Sheriff’s Office to resolve 13 charges of discrimination alleging race and age discrimination. The St. Louis Sheriff’s Office is responsible for the security of the courtrooms of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri and for serving court papers and eviction notices.

EEOC’s investigation of the charges found reasonable cause to believe that former Sheriff Alfred Montgomery systematically

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