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PRESS RELEASE
4-1-09

Pregnant Temp Terminated for Complaining About Discrimination, EEOC Said

PHOENIX– The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has settled its pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against two international corporations for $64,500 in monetary relief and remedial relief and that Federal District Court Judge G. Murray Snow signed the consent decrees resolving this case.

The EEOC’s suit (Case No. 2:08-CV-0221-PHX-GMS in U.S. District

PRESS RELEASE
4-1-09

Woman Battling Breast Cancer Fired When She Attempted to Return to Work, Federal Agency Charged

BALTIMORE – A White Marsh, Md., medical practice violated federal law when it refused to return an employee to work who had recovered from breast cancer surgery, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit (Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-00803-WDQ), filed in

PRESS RELEASE
4-1-09

Agency Cites Explicit Sexual and Gender Based Comments, Racial Slurs and Retaliation Against a Class of Workers

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit against Accurate Insulation, LLC, on behalf of a female and class of African American workers who were employed at its Upper Marlboro, Md. location.

According to the suit, (Civil Action

PRESS RELEASE
4-1-09

Supervisor on Road Construction Crew Harassed Two Women, Federal Agency Charges

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., which engages in business activities related to road construction, violated federal law by subjecting a class of women to sexual harassment and firing one woman for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

In its suit, the

PRESS RELEASE
4-10-01

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $485,000 settlement of a harassment lawsuit against Charoen Pokphand, USA, Inc., at its Eufaula, Ala., chicken processing plant. The EEOC and private plaintiffs alleged that seven African-American female line workers were subjected to egregious sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The

PRESS RELEASE
4-11-06

Partnership Launched with Department of the Interior’s National Business Center

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the award of an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Business Center (NBC) for financial management system support services using the competitive Centers of Excellence Financial Management Lines of Business program.

The agreement, which includes an 18-month base period, is valued

PRESS RELEASE
4-11-08

E-RACE Initiative Offers New Approach to Combating Job Bias, Promoting Voluntary Compliance

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and EEOC Commissioner Stuart J. Ishimaru, today met with Memphis area business leaders to discuss the agency's E-RACE Initiative (Eradicating Racism And Colorism from Employment) – a national outreach, education, and enforcement campaign focusing on new and emerging race

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PRESS RELEASE
4-11-97

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued policy guidance clarifying that the right of an individual to file a charge of employment discrimination with the Commission cannot be waived. The guidance also states that an individual's right to testify, assist, or participate in

PRESS RELEASE
4-18-02

New Online Resource to Assist Agencies in Implementing and Improving Mediation Programs

WASHINGTON - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced the posting of a new federal sector Web page containing the most comprehensive information available on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs for federal government agencies. The Federal Sector ADR Web Page, which can be accessed at www.eeoc.gov, provides

PRESS RELEASE
4-12-07

Chief of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Speaks Out Amid National Debate

WASHINGTON – Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the nation’s leading civil rights enforcement agency, today publicly called on the media and entertainment industry to make greater efforts to combat racism, in light of the dialogue spurred by Don Imus’s remarks:

AN OPEN LETTER TO DON IMUS, BERNARD

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   Claire Gonzales April 12, 1996                                Reginald Welch                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TDD:   (202) 663-4494 

PRESS RELEASE
4-12-96

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it is participating in a new on-line computer service of the Federal government that will provide the public with greater availability to agency information. As part of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS),

PRESS RELEASE
4-13-05

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 21, at 9:00 a.m., at agency headquarters in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Conference Room (9th floor), 1801 L Street, N.W. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, part of the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations. During the open session of the meeting, the

WASHINGTON – During its first remote Commission meeting today, EEOC Commissioners considered three policy items.

The first item the three-member Commission considered was an opinion letter explaining how EEOC-enforced laws do not prevent employers from using the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), which aims to encourage employers to hire and train people who are experiencing severe difficulties that are often linked to unemployment. To qualify for the WOTC tax credit, the law requires employers to obtain

PRESS RELEASE
4-13-06

Allegedly Denied Promotions to Management Jobs

SEATTLE -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has settled its national origin discrimination lawsuit against the successor of U S WEST Communications, Qwest Communications International Inc., for $400,000.  The EEOC achieved the settlement on behalf of a group of Hispanic employees who the EEOC alleged were denied promotions to management jobs at company's Portland, Oregon, facilities from 1998

PRESS RELEASE 4-13-09

EEOC Says Restaurant Denied Job to Applicant Because of Speech Impediment

NEW ORLEANS – A New Iberia, La.-based Sonic restaurant franchisee violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, in October 2006, Gravlee's Sonic of New Iberia, Inc., doing business as Sonic Drive-In

PRESS RELEASE
4-13-09

EEOC Prevails in Case Involving Physical and Verbal Abuse of Glassblowers

PHOENIX – A federal district court today entered a Federal Court Judgment for over $267,000 and significant injunctive relief in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a discrimination lawsuit against Sunfire Glass, Inc. The EEOC’s suit charged that the company’s owner subjected a class of female employees to severe physical and

PRESS RELEASE
4-25-00

COLUMBIA, SC -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit today against Augusta Fiberglass and Coating, Inc., alleging that a class of African American employees was subjected to race discrimination and a racially hostile working environment from 1979 until present at the company's Blackville, South Carolina, plant.

According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in

PRESS RELEASE
4-23-07

EEOC Says Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion Harassed Black and Caribbean Workers

NEW YORK – A New York geriatric center will pay $900,000 to settle a class race and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today (case, Civ. No. 05-4601, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of New York).

The EEOC charged that Flushing Manor Geriatric

PRESS RELEASE
4-23-09

Company Fired Female Worker Based on Gender, Federal Agency Says

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Garner, N.C.-based engineering and design company will pay $10,250 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Tyndall Engineering and Design, P.A. disciplined workers in a discriminatory fashion based on gender when

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EEOC CHAIRWOMAN TO MEET WITH COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS LEADERS IN CAROLINAS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will be in Charlotte April 27-28 to meet with community and business leaders to discuss strategies for creating discrimination-free workplaces and to encourage voluntary compliance with the laws enforced by the EEOC.

On April 28, she will address