EEOC Sues Healthcare Staffing Company for Sexual Harassment

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Malone Workforce Solutions subjected female employees at the company’s Omaha, Nebraska, healthcare staffing office to unlawful sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, male employees continually made harassing and derogatory comments to female employees and engaged in lewd, sexually explicit conversations in open work spaces where female employees could not avoid them. When one of the women asked to be moved to a different work area to avoid the harassment, her supervisor initially allowed her to work in a different area, but the conduct continued. The woman then reported the harassment to a higher-level manager, who dismissed her concerns. The woman’s supervisor then forced her to move back to her original work area next to the harassers and placed her on a performance improvement plan. The harassment continued, and the woman was forced to quit.

Such alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits harassment because of an employee’s sex and retaliation for opposing unlawful discrimination and harassment. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Management Registry, Inc. d/b/a Malone Workforce Solutions, Case No. 8:25-cv-00432) in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.

“Degrading sexual comments that are pervasive and both objectively and subjectively offensive create an unlawful hostile work environment,” said Andrea G. Baran, regional attorney for the EEOC’s St. Louis District Office. “Employers have an obligation to prevent such conduct and take immediate action to stop it if it occurs.”

David S. Davis, director of the EEOC’s St. Louis District Office, said, “The EEOC is committed to protecting workers from all forms of unlawful sexual harassment.”

For more information about sex discrimination, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/sex-based-discrimination. For more information about retaliation, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/retaliation. For more information on sexual harassment, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment.

The EEOC’s St. Louis District Office is responsible for addressing discrimination charges and conducting agency litigation in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and a portion of southern Illinois.

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