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PRESS RELEASE
10-4-04

EEOC's 72nd National Mediation Agreement and First with Silicon Valley High-Tech Company

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, today announced the signing of a partnership in the form of a National Universal Agreement to Mediate (NUAM) to informally resolve workplace disputes through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) prior to an EEOC investigation or potential

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7-20-09

Settlement With White Hall Nursing Includes Monetary and Other Relief

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – White Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, an elder-care facility in White Hall, Ark., will pay $24,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 5:08-cv-00185, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of

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11-17-06

$2,355,000 Awarded to Three Saleswomen for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation By Northlake, Ill. Trucking Company

CHICAGO - A federal court jury this afternoon returned a $2.355 million verdict in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and three saleswomen who experienced sexual harassment and retaliation while employed by The Custom Companies, a Northlake, Ill. trucking company. The verdicts included punitive damages in the amount

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PRESS RELEASE
7-29-99

Largest EEOC Monetary Settlement for Age Discrimination in New York State

New York -- In a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Johnson and Higgins, Inc. agreed to pay $28 million to conclude a lawsuit which alleged that it violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) through its policy of forcing employees who were members of

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PRESS RELEASE
11-7-06

Settlement by EEOC and Private Plaintiffs Mandates Systemic Changes

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major litigation settlement with Tyson Foods for $871,000 on behalf of black workers who alleged that they were racially harassed and retaliated against at a chicken processing plant in Ashland, Alabama. The three-year consent decree entered today by U.S. District Court Judge Karen O

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PRESS RELEASE
8-06-03

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Charging Party Jennifer James (center) is pictured with her baby. Standing next to her are EEOC Trial Attorney Kam Wong (right) and private counsel James A. Brown (left)

Expecting Mother Forced to Choose Between Parenthood and Livelihood, Suit Says

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit in federal district court against John Harvard's Brew

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PRESS RELEASE
12-20-07

EEOC Said Apprenticeship Test Discriminated Against Hundreds of Black Workers

CINCINNATI – Ford Motor Co., along with two related companies and a national union, will pay $1.6 million and provide other remedial relief to a class of nearly 700 African Americans to settle a major race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC had charged

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Pictured are Charging Party Karon Lambert (left) and EEOC Chicago Trial Attorney Lauren Dreilinger (right). Ms. Lambert's sexual harassment case resulted in EEOC's litigation against Caterpillar's Aurora facility.

Federal Agency Challenges Racial and Sexual Harassment at Joliet and Aurora Plants

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed two employment discrimination lawsuits in federal court in Chicago against Caterpillar

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PRESS RELEASE
2-1-07

Race and Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Most Frequently Filed Cases

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year received a total of 75,768 discrimination charges against private sector employers, the first increase in charge filings since 2002, the federal agency reported today as part of its Fiscal Year 2006 data.

The year-end statistics, available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/enforcement.html, show that charges based on race

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PRESS RELEASE
8-21-01

Federal Agency Says Employer's Leave Policies Ran Afoul of Disabilities Act

CHICAGO - Federal District Judge John W. Darrah entered a $650,000 Consent Decree here today ending a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit against Blood Systems, Inc. and its subsidiary United Blood Services (together United Blood), national firms in the business of collecting blood from donors and providing it to hospitals. EEOC's

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PRESS RELEASE
2-21-02

ROANOKE, Va. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a $1 million settlement of a class action race and gender discrimination lawsuit against Optical Cable Corporation, a high-tech employer and publicly held company that manufactures fiber-optic cables. EEOC's suit alleged that Optical Cable violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to hire African-American applicants for a 10-year period

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 MEDIA ADVISORY                                                            CONTACT:  EEOC Office of Communications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  Charles Robbins - (202) 663-4900 August 5, 2005                                         David Grinberg  - (202) 663-4921     

PRESS RELEASE
8-5-05

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next meeting on Monday, August 8, 2005, at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Conference Room (9th floor), 1801 L Street, N.W.

In accordance

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PRESS RELEASE
2-9-01

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that four of its attorneys have been selected to participate in the second annual Government Fellowship Program of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law. Under the program, EEOC legal staff with a record of excellence in civil rights law will serve as members of the ABA's EEO Committee and Federal

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PRESS RELEASE
9-12-01

WASHINGTON - Among the tragic events of yesterday was the destruction of the New York District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), located on the 18th floor of the World Trade Center, Building 7. Gratefully, all district office personnel, along with other residents of the building, were safely evacuated before the structure collapsed late yesterday afternoon.

EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez and agency

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PRESS RELEASE
3-16-09

Company Fired Employee Who Complained About Perceived Harassment, Agency Charged

PITTSBURGH — Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. has agreed to pay $37,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Verizon fired Senior Field Clerk Lissa Hannan about 10 days after she complained about perceived sexual harassment

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PRESS RELEASE
9-19-00

DALLAS - A speak-English-only policy implemented by Premier Operator Services, Inc., a former long distance operator service, constitutes national origin discrimination, Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney has ruled, awarding 13 Hispanic employees over $700,000 in damages. The decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, represents the largest monetary award ever obtained by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

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PRESS RELEASE
9-20-01

PHOENIX - A federal court in Tucson held Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in contempt and imposed sanctions on the company on June 13, 2001, for failure to comply with a court order resolving claims that Wal-Mart refused to hire Jeremy Fass and William Darnell because they are deaf, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Today, the court approved an amended consent decree resolving the

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PRESS RELEASE
3-26-09

Staff Given Time Off Also Entitled to Overtime Pay, Arbitrator Rules

WASHINGTON— - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) practice of giving time off to employees who worked extra hours was insufficient for certain investigators and mediators, an arbitrator ruled.

“The EEOC offered compensatory time off to any employee who worked extra hours, but the arbitrator found that practice was not enough to satisfy the

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PRESS RELEASE
9-24-09

Community Development Organization Refused to Hire Pregnant Woman for Trainer Job, Federal Agency Charges

ST. LOUIS – Better Family Life, Inc., a community development organization, violated federal law by rescinding a job offer to a woman because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged today in a discrimination lawsuit filed today in federal court.

According to the EEOC's suit, filed in the

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   Claire Gonzales March 7, 1996                                 Reginald Welch                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TDD:   (202) 663-4494 

PRESS RELEASE
3-7-96

WASHINGTON -- In the fourth of a series of Commission meetings focusing on specific types of unlawful employment discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hear presentations by invited experts on discrimination issues affecting Americans with disabilities in the workplace.

The meeting will be held