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BUFFALO, N.Y.— Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing, Inc., a Buffalo steel galvanizing business, will pay $360,000 and provide other relief to settle a race and national origin harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company subjected a class of black temporary and permanent workers to egregious race- and national origin-based harassment, including routine use of egregious racial slurs and forcing

BOSTON – Bob’s Tire Company, Inc., a used tire scrap and recycling facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts, will pay $250,000 and provide other relief to settle a sex, race, national origin harassment and retaliation case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company’s owner and a co-worker subjected a class of Hispanic laborers to egregious and constant harassment, which included inappropriate and

NEW YORK – ACARE HHC, Inc., doing business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency, a Brooklyn-based company supplying home health aides, will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Four Seasons routinely acceded to patients’ racial preferences when making home health aide assignments, including removal of Black

PHOENIX – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Schuff Steel Company, a steel fabrication company headquartered in Phoenix, agreed to pay $500,000 and implement companywide policy changes and prevention measures to resolve a lawsuit alleging race harassment, national origin harassment, and retaliation.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Schuff Steel violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by harassing Black and Latino employees at its Eloy, Arizona plant and

NEW YORK–ACARE HHC Inc., doing business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency (“Four Seasons”), a Brooklyn-based company that provides its clients with home health aides, violated federal law by removing aides from their work assignments due to their race and national origin to accommodate client preferences, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Four Seasons routinely would accede to racial preferences of

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Parris Pizza Company, LLC, a Domino’s Pizza franchise in Olean, New York, violated federal law when it permitted race-based harassment of Black employees by managers and co-workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. 

The EEOC charges that, beginning in at least 2019, Parris Pizza subjected its African American employees, including Andrew Ross and others, to a race-based hostile work environ­ment. The mistreatment included two

PHOENIX -- Schuff Steel Company, a steel fabrication and erection company, violated federal law by harassing African American and Hispanic employees at its location in Eloy, Arizona and retaliating against them when they complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed on September 28, 2022.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Schuff Steel’s Eloy plant manager regularly used racial slurs against Black and Hispanic employees, including using the N-word, as well

CHEYENNE, Wyo.– Skils’kin, a non-profit focused on disabilities and employment that operates in Washington, Montana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, the only Black employee on the Skils’kin grounds crew working at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming was called various racial slurs by other Skils’kin

BURLINGTON, Vt. – 98 Starr Road Operating Co., LLC, doing business as Elderwood at Burlington, a large long-term care facility located in Burlington, Vermont, violated federal law by allowing black nurses and nurse assistants to be subjected to ongoing and egregious racial harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, starting in 2020, certain White patients/residents of Elderwood repeatedly directed offensive racial slurs at

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Four national companies that jointly built and maintained oil & gas pipelines in New Mexico and Texas will pay $1,750,000 and provide other relief to settle a systemic race, national origin and sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

“No one should have to put up with insults or derogatory remarks about their race or national origin just to earn