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PRESS RELEASE
6-13-03

WASHINGTON - For the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Chair Cari M. Dominguez today will accept the Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association. Presentation of the award will take place during a luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, between 12:30 and 2:30

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PRESS RELEASE
1-23-09

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Barack Obama has appointed Stuart J. Ishimaru as Acting Chairman of the EEOC and Christine M. Griffin as Acting Vice Chair.

Ishimaru, whose term expires on July 1, 2012, has been a Commissioner since November 2003. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a second term at the EEOC in December 2007

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PRESS RELEASE
6-22-09

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Left to right: D. Andrew Winston, EEOC Trial Attorney; Laurie Scott Paddock,
Private Counsel; Lisa Cornwell, Charging Party; Glenn Parker, EEOC Investigator;
Rita Byrnes Kittle, EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney

Christian Emergency Services Supervisory Officer Denied Religious Accommodation and Subjected to Harassment at Keystone Resort, Federal Agency Charged

DENVER – The Vail Corporation, which operates ski resorts in Vail and Keystone, Colo., will pay $80,000 and furnish

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   William J. White, Jr. October 1, 1997                               Reginald Welch                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TDD:   (202) 663-4494 

PRESS RELEASE
10-1-97

WASHINGTON -- In a letter to the White House today, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Gilbert F. Casellas informed President Clinton that he would resign from the agency effective at the end of this year. Chairman Casellas will be leaving the Administration after more than four

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PRESS RELEASE
6-4-09

EEOC Says Airline Failed to Provide Reasonable Accommodations for Disabled Workers

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today sued Chicago-based global air carrier United Airlines for discriminating against a class of employees with disabilities by failing to provide job transfers to vacant positions, despite their qualifications, as a reasonable accommodation.

Lead class member Joe Boswell worked as an airline mechanic for United

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PRESS RELEASE
10-23-08

EEOC Says County Attempted to Force Out Senior Marine Bureau Police Officers

NEW YORK - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Nassau County on Long Island will pay $450,000 and agree to significant injunctive relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit on behalf of several police officers in the Marine Bureau.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC asserted that Nassau County discriminated against

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PRESS RELEASE
7-12-06

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, July 13, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W. (9th Floor). In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the following matters are scheduled for consideration:

• Announcement of Notation Votes
• Obligation of Funds for the EEOC National Contact Center – Option Years

NOTE TO NEWS MEDIA

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PRESS RELEASE
7-13-01

Hundreds May Receive Compensation For Alleged Race And Sex Bias By Leading Area Employer

ROCKFORD, Ill. - Federal District Court Judge Philip G. Reinhard today approved a $1.8 million Consent Decree resolving a major race and sex employment discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on behalf of blacks and women alleged

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PRESS RELEASE
10-7-04

EEOC Issues Call to Retail Industry for Best Practices

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will release a new study, "Retail Distribution Centers: How New Business Processes Impact Minority Labor Markets," tomorrow, Friday, October 8. The full text of the report will be posted online at www.eeoc.gov.

The EEOC's study is the second in a three-part series examining diversity in the retail

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PRESS RELEASE
7-22-09

EEOC Said Employer Fired Woman Battling Breast Cancer When She Attempted to Return to Work

BALTIMORE -- A White Marsh, Md., medical practice will pay for $125,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Medical Health Group, Inc., refused to return an employee to

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SAN JUAN, PR – La Comisión de Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC), junto a la Unidad Anti-Discrimen del Departamento del Trabajo del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, la Comisión de Derechos Civiles de Puerto Rico, y el Concilio Puertorriqueño contra el Racismo, convocará una discusión pública sobre el tema del Racismo y el discrimen por color en el empleo existentes en Puerto

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PRESS RELEASE
7-30-09

Egyptian Worker Subjected to Repeated Abuse, Federal Agency Charges

LAS VEGAS – The Sahara Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment for an Egyptian kitchen employee through a daily barrage of derogatory comments due to his national origin and retaliating against him when he reported it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a

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PRESS RELEASE
12-10-07

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next open meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations. During the meeting, the following matters are scheduled for consideration:

• Announcement of Notation Votes.
• Non-competitive modification extending the

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PRESS RELEASE
8-11-03

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Eric Dreiband was sworn in today as General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for a term of four years. Dreiband, most recently Deputy Administrator for Policy in the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, was nominated by President Bush on February 4 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 31.

"We are

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PRESS RELEASE
12-23-02

PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced it has settled a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., based in Bentonville, Arkansas, for $220,000 in damages and other relief for its failure to hire a female applicant due to her pregnancy.

Under the Consent Decree filed in Arizona District Court (EEOC v. WalMart CIV 94-465 TUC WDB), Wal-Mart will pay

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PRESS RELEASE
8-15-06

Office to Serve South Alabama, Southern Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle

MOBILE, ALABAMA – Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today officially opened the EEOC’s Mobile, Ala., Local Office at 63 South Royal Street, Suite 504, in the Riverview Office Plaza.

The new office – in a region that has seen service needs soar largely because of shifting populations and

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PRESS RELEASE
2-12-07

EEOC Obtains Favorable Jury Verdict in Lawsuit Against Faulkner Company

OXFORD, Miss. -- A federal jury here returned a $225,000 verdict Friday against Hill Brothers Construction Company and Engineering Company, Inc. (Hill Brothers) in a rare same-sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of male employees who were sexually harassed by other men.

The EEOC charged in its lawsuit

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PRESS RELEASE
8-25-00

BOSTON - Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will deliver the keynote address at the agency's annual Federal Sector Technical Assistance Program on Wednesday, August 30, at 9:30 a.m., at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, 10 Huntington Avenue.

Chairwoman Castro's speech is the centerpiece of the week-long training program on the federal sector discrimination complaint process for EEOC officials from

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The charging parties and the EEOC team.

PRESS RELEASE
2-23-99

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Tanimura & Antle, one of the largest lettuce growers/distributors in the United States, announced today that they reached a $1,855,000 voluntary settlement, approved by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in San Jose, California. The settlement through a Consent Decree avoids protracted litigation by the EEOC on

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PRESS RELEASE
8-6-09

Seven Women Abused by Co-Workers, Federal Agency Charged

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Georgetown, Ky., restaurant will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's suit, seven female employees at the Golden Corral Buffet & Grill were sexually harassed by male co-workers who verbally abused the