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ST. LOUIS – National restaurant chain Chipotle violated federal law when a manager at the company’s Lenexa, Kansas location harassed a teen worker for wearing a hijab and when the company retaliated against her after she complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday. The agency further alleged the teen was forced to resign because of the discriminatory treatment.

According to the suit, the teen was employed as a

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — National Telecommuting Institute, Inc. (NTI), a Westwood, Massachusetts-based staffing firm, violated federal law when it refused to place or refer blind and low-vision applicants as telephone-based customer service agents, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The lawsuit also alleges that NTI denied applicants disability-related accommodations during their pre-employment application process.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, when NTI became aware that applicants for placement

MIAMI – Florida Care ALF of Amelia Island, Inc., located in Ferdinand Beach, Florida, violated federal law when it fired an employee because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, as soon as Florida Care ALF management learned that the employee was pregnant, her manager refused to give her any more shifts and terminated her.

Terminating an employee because of her

ATLANTA – Zoe Center for Pediatric & Adolescent Health, LLC, a provider of pediatric and adolescent health services in Thomaston, Georgia, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her disabilities and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, in January 2022, an employee requested an accommodation to work remotely three days per week due to her disabilities

DALLAS – Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates facilities across Texas and Louisiana, and MPD Operators Nazareth Hall, LLC, doing business as Nazareth Living Care Center in El Paso, Texas, violated federal law when they allowed an administrator to sexually harass a house­keeping aide, and then retaliated against her and another employee for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, an administrator at

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Waste Pro of Florida, a waste collection, recycling, processing and disposal company based in Longwood, Florida, violated federal law when it subjected Black employees to racist slurs and then retaliated against them for complaining about the behavior, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.   

According to the filing, Waste Pro employees at its Jacksonville location regularly used the N-word in front of Black employees, including

WASHINGTON - Didlake, Inc. a government contractor that provides janitorial and maintenance employees to federal worksites throughout Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a suit filed today.

The EEOC alleged that although Didlake, a not-for-profit corporation, employs a significant number of deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, it failed to provide communications

TAMPA, Fla. –– Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. (APS), an asphalt paving company with offices in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Tennessee, violated federal law by subjecting 12 Black employees who had filed charges with the EEOC, and a class of other Black employees, to race-based discrimination and harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, African American employees were subjected to a hostile

CHICAGO – Blackwell Security Services, Inc., a hotel and condominium staffing company, violated federal law when it refused to accommodate an employee’s religious practice, forcing him to choose between his religion and his livelihood, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee, who worked as a concierge in Chicago, Illinois, is a practicing Muslim who wears a beard as required by his religious

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor released today a commemorative resource guide about recruitment, hiring, and employment of individuals with disabilities, “Employment Protections Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: 50 Years of Protecting Americans with Disabilities in the Workplace.”

The EEOC and the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) issued the guide to

PHILADELPHIA – AMZ Manufacturing Co. (AMZ), an electroplating, painting, and assembly business, violated federal law when it subjected female employees to a hostile work environment because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, two female employees at AMZ’s facility in York, Pennsylvania, were subjected to sexually charged and demeaning sex-based comments from male co-workers and supervisors. One of the women endured

INDIANAPOLIS – Fricker’s U.S.A., LLC, and Fricker’s Holding Company, Inc., operators of the Fricker’s restaurant chain headquartered in Ohio, violated federal law by discriminating against males for jobs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Fricker’s, which has locations in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, has a long-standing policy and practice of hiring only female applicants for server positions and other front-of-house jobs in the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Gregg Orr Auto Collection, Inc., a company that provides administrative and operations services for a group of related automobile dealerships across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida, violated federal law when it fired a longtime senior manager in its Texarkana, Texas, location to avoid its share of the employee’s cancer-treatment costs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on Feb. 11, 2020

CHICAGO – Voyant Beauty, LLC violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it fired a production line worker because she is deaf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.  

The EEOC’s suit alleges that Voyant terminated the employee on her first day of work at its facility in Countryside, Illinois, upon learning she is deaf, even though she was qualified for the job and could have performed

CHICAGO – United Parcel Service (UPS) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by maintaining a discriminatory policy of refusing to hire or reasonably accommodate deaf or hearing-impaired individuals for driver positions of vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds, even when the Department of Transportation (DOT) had authorized the practice, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.  

According to the EEOC’s suit, the UPS policy is an illegal

ATLANTA – Waste Industries U.S.A., LLC, TransWaste Services, LLC,  Waste Industries Atlanta LLC, and GFL Environmental, Inc. (collectively “Waste Industries”), providers of solid waste removal, recycling pickup and landfill operation services, engaged in discrimination by refusing to hire  a class of qualified female applicants as truck drivers because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a class of applicants applied

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – 4Top Hospitality Group, Inc. and J.H.S. Holdings, LLC, operating as an integrated enterprise and doing business as Amerigo Italian restaurant in Memphis, violated federal law when it subjected an employee to sexual orientation discrimination and discharged the employee in retaliation after he complained of the discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, managers of the Italian eatery cultivated a hostile

DENVER – National restaurant chain Landry’s Seafood House violated federal law when it subjected an Iranian employee to a hostile work environment based on her national origin and retaliated against her when she made discrimination complaints at its Englewood, Colorado, location, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Landry’s employees, including managers and supervisors, regularly and openly mocked an Iranian employee’s accent, criticized her

CLEVELAND – Cedar Fair, L.P., doing business as Cedar Point, and Magnum Management Corporation, which own, operate and staff Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by banning seasonal workers aged 40 and older from employer-provided housing, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Cedar Fair and Magnum provide housing at signifi­cantly below-market rates for out-of-town

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Aaron Thomas Company, Inc., a distribution company, and Supreme Staffing, LLC, a staffing agency, both based in Memphis, violated federal law by denying individuals employment on the bases of race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a suit filed this week.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least January 2018, Aaron Thomas and Supreme Staffing failed to refer and hire Black applicants for low-skill positions. The EEOC further alleged

DENVER – A&A Appliance, Inc., doing business as Appliance Factory, a corporation operating appliance stores in four states, violated federal law when it refused to provide an accommodation to an employee with long COVID at its Thornton, Colorado location, leading to her discharge, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.   

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a sales associate who had ongoing symptoms related to a COVID-19 infection requested additional

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the signing of an interagency agreement with the U.S. Census Bureau to use the Census Bureau’s Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) network to securely host EEOC data and provide data access to qualified researchers.

Through this agreement, researchers who complete a vetting process by the Census Bureau will be able to access and analyze EEOC data, including workforce demographic data and charge data

WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for Fiscal Years 2024 –2028. The SEP establishes the EEOC’s subject matter priorities to achieve its mission of preventing and remedying unlawful employment discrimination and to advance its vision of fair and inclusive workplaces with equal opportunity for all.

By updating and refining the prior SEP and incorporating public feedback on the agency’s strategic priorities, the EEOC is

NEW ORLEANS – Trico Transportation Services, Inc., a logistics management and specialty hauling company, violated federal law when it rescinded a job offer and refused to hire a truck driver applicant based on his previous history of back pain, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the applicant applied for an open truck driver position with Trico in May 2021, and Trico extended