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TAMPA, Fla. — Joey’s New York Pizza and Italian Restaurant, a chain of eateries in the Tampa area, will pay $55,000 and implement significant policy and training reforms to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that one of the owners, who directly manages three of its locations, created a hostile work environment by targeting young

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water), an independent authority of the Washington, D.C. government providing water and wastewater services, will pay nearly $217,000 and provide other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, in September 2023, DC Water fired a high-performing and experienced older member of its human resources department and

JACKSON, Tenn. — Toyota Boshoku Jackson Tennessee, LLC and Toyota Boshoku America, Inc., in Erlanger, Kentucky, manufacturers of automotive interior systems and powertrain and filtration products, violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to a sexually hostile workplace where male workers groped and insulted female employees and some managers offered advancement for sexual favors, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, since

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — WorkSmart, Inc., a staffing agency headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina providing placement services in the southeastern U.S., will pay $150,000 to a class of female employees and provide other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from Aug. 1, 2020, to Aug. 8, 2023, WorkSmart failed to hire or refer a class of aggrieved

WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) approved the release of a draft strategic plan for fiscal years 2026-2030, inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on the agency’s priorities.

The draft strategic plan provides a comprehensive framework for aligning agency resources to fulfill the EEOC’s mission and outlines strategic goals and objectives to guide the agency’s work over the next four fiscal years. The draft is posted to regulations.gov where public comments may

OKLAHOMA CITY — Paycom Payroll, LLC, an Oklahoma software company specializing in payroll and human capital software, violated federal law when it failed to provide effective reasonable accommodations to an employee with a life‑threatening food allergy and fired her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit said that shortly after being hired, an employee with a severe allergy repeatedly suffered anaphylactic reactions from exposure to

OKLAHOMA CITY — H.C. Employees, LLC doing business as Home Creations, a homebuilder operating in Oklahoma and Texas, violated federal law when it fired an employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Home Creations’ sales director and sales manager made repeated comments reflecting bias against pregnant sales staff, cautioning female employees not to “drink the water” because women “get

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

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

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

HOUSTON — The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), a university health system in Galveston, Texas, violated federal law when it paid a female employee lower wages than it paid her male counterpart for performing substantially equal work because of the female worker’s sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from October 2023 until about January 2026, UTMB paid a female solutions architect

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 — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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