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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

CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed an action in federal court to enforce a subpoena that it issued during its investigation into claims that Mauser Packaging Solutions engaged in illegal hiring practices, including limiting, segregating, or classifying applicants by race, national origin, or sex for various Mauser facilities, primarily in the Chicagoland area.

Mauser is an international manufacturer of rigid packaging, headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois

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

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

CHICAGO – Eagle Services, an industrial and environmental cleaning service with locations in Illinois and Indiana, will pay $100,000 in monetary relief to a class of affected employees to voluntarily resolve an employment discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The agreement announced today resolves a charge filed with the EEOC alleging that Eagle Services discriminated against employees because of their race and national origin by subjecting them to harassment. Additionally

MILWAUKEE – Baumann Farms LLP, a major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, will pay $180,812.50 and provide other significant relief to settle a sexual harassment, retaliation, 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, female employees at Baumann Farms were subjected to a hostile work environment and harassed by their male super­visor, who propositioned them for sex, sent them sexually