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ATLANTA — Safelite Fulfillment, LLC, the largest auto glass repair company in the United States, violated federal law by refusing to hire qualified female applicants nationwide for technician positions because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a class of female applicants applied for technician positions at multiple Safelite locations nationwide, only to be passed over because of their sex. During

LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Salvation Army, headquartered in Virginia with a facility in Lynchburg, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee by denying her a reasonable accommodation to seek treatment for cancer and caused her to be separated from her employment, according to a lawsuit announced today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in October 2024, a case worker with Hodgkin’s lymphoma provided The Salvation Army

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — Federal Express Corporation, formerly known as FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc., violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to blind employees at its Kernersville, North Carolina facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Federal Express Corporation discriminated against four individual employees who worked as package handlers, and a class of employee package handlers, who are disabled because of

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

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted yesterday to rescind a pair of approximately 40-year-old agency policy documents: the agency interpretive guidelines titled “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended” (Affirmative Action Guidelines) and the related “Compliance Manual Section 607 on Affirmative Action” (Compliance Manual on Affirmative Action).

The Commission found that the Affirmative Action Guidelines ran afoul of the text of Title VII

LOS ANGELES — Tawa Supermarket, Inc. doing business as 99 Ranch Market, violated federal law when it fired and otherwise discriminated against non-Chinese workers based on their national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2016, following a leadership change, the grocery store chain allegedly terminated recently hired non-Chinese managers at multiple locations. Tawa also subjected non-Chinese store-level employees to

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

DENVER — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging that related companies Triad Solution Services (Triad), Pro Cleaning Services, and All Cleaning Service, LLC engaged in a multi-year hiring scheme which unlawfully excluded qualified American and non-Hispanic applicants from janitorial jobs across Colorado.

The suit alleged the companies favored workers of Latin American origin in order to maintain a labor force they could more easily intimidate and

ATLANTA — Penney OpCo, LLC, doing business as JC Penney, a retail department store chain with more than 600 stores and distribution warehouses nationwide, will pay $99,000 and undertake 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, a warehouse associate at the JC Penney logistics center in Forest Park, Georgia was diagnosed with breast cancer and requested time off

ST. LOUIS — Miller’s Grill, Inc., a Washington, Missouri restaurant, will pay monetary damages to a former employee 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 suit, the restaurant’s owner, Larry Miller, sexually harassed a female manager, Lisa Kelley, in 2017, by brushing up against her, grabbing her around the waist; touching her

BOSTON — LeachGarner, Inc., a metallurgical manufacturer and supplier, will pay $2.8 million and provide other relief to settle a federal sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged that for years LeachGarner routinely assigned female manufacturing employees at its Attleboro, Massachusetts facility to lower paying jobs. Manufacturing positions were held nearly exclusively by men and paid more than those held by women, even though the male

TAMPA, Fla. — Red Royal Electric, Inc., a provider of residential electric services to counties in western Florida, will pay $34,500 and implement significant policy and training reforms 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, in January 2025, Red Royal refused to hire an applicant with a neurodevelopmental disorder and failed to accommodate his request to provide

DANVILLE, Ky. — Dana Sealing Manufacturing, LLC, a manufacturer of automotive parts, violated federal law when it collected the medical history of applicants’ family members during the pre-employment physical examination process at its facility in Danville, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, from at least January 2022 until October 2024, Dana Sealing requested genetic information from applicants by requiring applicants to state whether

JACKSON, Miss. — Golding Barge Line, Inc., an inland towboat and barge company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, violated federal law when it rescinded a job offer for an individual who applied for work as a deckhand on the basis of disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company rescinded the offer because of the results of the applicant’s pre-employment color vision test. The

NEW YORK — Option Care Enterprises, Inc., a Bannockburn, Illinois-based chain of infusion therapy services providers across the nation, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that in May 2023, one of Option Care’s Massachusetts locations failed to accommodate a pregnant nurse’s request to reduce her travel time to

DETROIT — O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, doing business as O’Reilly Auto Parts, a national auto parts retailer operating more than 6,500 stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada, violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee at its Belleville, Michigan distribution center and fired him instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, O’Reilly hired an employee as

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

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – JACO Enterprises, LLC, a transportation/limousine company offering services throughout Kentucky, failed to pay $95,000 to alleged victims of sexual harassment as required pursuant to a conciliation agreement the company entered into with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee filed a charge of discrimination alleging she was sexually harassed by a male employee and that

NEW YORK — PT Administrative Services LLC, a large chain of physical therapy clinics doing business as JAG Physical Therapy, will pay $125,000 and furnish other relief to settle a childbirth discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In the lawsuit, the EEOC charged that in late 2023, the employee, a patient services coordinator at the Brooklyn Heights JAG location, reached out the day she gave

BALTIMORE — TidalHealth, operator of the TidalHealth McCready Pavilion, a medical services and assisted living facility in Crisfield on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, violated federal law when it disciplined and fired a female employee for conduct for which it did not discipline or terminate a male employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, TidalHealth suspended and then terminated a longtime female employee and van

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Fitch Irick Management, LLC, formerly known as GEM Management, LLC, will pay $90,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual harassment lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the North Carolina-based property management company knew its Stanford, Kentucky site manager reported being sexually harassed by a coworker but failed to address it. After the company directed the employee to continue working

BOSTON – The Daly/Kenney Group, LLC and 15 related companies, owners and operators of Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, will pay $250,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit recently filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since approximately March 2013, the Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees had a policy which refused to provide reasonable accommodations to employees

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 — Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the approval of additional instructions for agencies’ Fiscal Year 2026 Management Directive 715 (MD-715) submissions to ensure compliance with applicable executive orders while the Commission works to modernize the directive. The clarifying instructions address recent legal developments and executive orders.

Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration, Chair Lucas has focused on reforming the EEOC’s federal sector program to ensure it follows the