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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— Golding Barge Line, Inc., an inland towboat and barge company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, violated federal law when it rescinded a job offer for an individual who applied for work as a deckhand on the basis of disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in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According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company rescinded the offer because of the results of the applicant’s pre-employment color vision test.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

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

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Cataldo Community Residential Inc. agreed to pay $60,000 in compensatory damages and back pay and provide other injunctive relief to resolve a sexual harassment and retaliation investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation found that during the summer of 2024, a female employee was subjected to inappropriate sex-based comments and sexual harassment from another employee, which created a hostile work environment

WASHINGTON – Proper Ventures, LLC and WSRZ Proper, LLC, operators of a restaurant chain in Washington known as Proper 21, violated federal law when it fired a floor manager while she was on maternity leave, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Proper 21 repeatedly questioned the employee about her maternity leave and expressed discomfort with her working while she was pregnant. Proper 21

CHICAGO — Alight Solutions, an employee benefits administrator headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee by denying him a reasonable accommodation for his diabetes, and then firing him because of the disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Alight Solutions refused the employee additional breaks during his shift to monitor blood sugar and to recover from diabetic

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

AUSTIN, Texas — Buc-ee’s, Ltd., a travel center retailer with locations throughout Texas and in 10 other states, violated federal law when it denied a disabled employee reasonable accommodations and subsequently terminated him, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Buc-ee’s cashier in Bastrop, Texas requested a reasonable accommodation in October 2024 for physician-imposed restrictions related to his disability, myasthenia gravis, a chronic

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

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Education violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, by unlawfully discriminating against three federal employees, according to an appellate decision issued today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Office of the Federal Sector (OFS). The decision found that the agency summarily denied requests for religious accommodations to be exempt from the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued by

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