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ATLANTA – C.W., Inc., which does business as CPG Staffing, and Executive Personnel Group, LLC, sister staffing companies that assign employees to construction industry clients, illegally discriminated against a job applicant when they rescinded his job offer in Hazlehurst, Georgia, because they regarded him as having a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, CPG Staffing and Executive Personnel rescinded a welding applicant’s

WASHINGTON – Alto Experience, Inc., a ride hailing company that currently operates in Texas, Florida, and California, and previously operated in the District of Columbia and Virginia, violated federal law when it denied reasonable accommodations and employment to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who applied to work as personal drivers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, Alto refused to hire qualified deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals

ATLANTA – Total Systems Services, LLC, a global payments processing company based in Columbus, Georgia, will pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that from May through August 2020, a customer service representative with a disability who worked in a Total Systems call center repeatedly requested remote work as a reasonable accommodation because of her high-risk

BALTIMORE – Verizon Maryland, LLC, will pay $115,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a management employee who suffered from hypertension asked his manager for a change to a field position or to an alternate management position to accommodate his disability. There was an opening for a field position which the employee

HOUSTON – VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, VibraLife hired an employee with a sleep disorder for a night shift position. The job posting required the selected candidate to work 36 hours per week in three 12-hour shifts

DENVER – Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Company, a recreational gear company headquartered in Utah with employees throughout the United States, violated federal law when it fired an employee because he complained about age discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee complained multiple times to human resources and management about age discrimination during an organizational restructuring. During the reorganization, the company

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Catalyst Family Inc., a non-profit company that operates child development centers in various locations in California, has agreed to provide almost $150,000 to a former employee and injunctive relief following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s investigation, the part-time employee worked for Catalyst Family for about two years when he requested an accommodation for his intellectual and cognitive disabilities

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Cruz Construction Co., Inc., agreed to provide $56,000 and injunctive relief to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s investigation, the company fired an administrative assistant in July 2023, two days after she requested a reasonable accommodation for a disability.

Firing an employee because she asserted her right to ask for accommodation violated the Americans with

DENVER – Nature’s Herb and Wellness Center, doing business as High Plainz Strains, a Colorado marijuana retailer with seven retail stores, will pay $95,000 to settle a disability and retaliation discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Nature’s Herbs failed to reasonably accommodate a budtender’s disabilities after she disclosed her disabilities to her manager and requested accommodation. When the employee

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it filed 110 lawsuits challenging unlawful employment discrimination in fiscal year 2024, placing an emphasis on emerging issues and advancing the employment rights of underserved and vulnerable workers.  

“Litigation is only one tool in the EEOC’s toolbox for achieving its mission of preventing and remedying employment discrimination, but it is a tool we will continue to deploy strategically to maximize our impact,”

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a perspective today on a key federal directive titled, “Twenty Years of the EEOC’s Management Directive 715.”

The EEOC issued Management Directive 715 (MD-715) on Oct. 1, 2003 to help federal agencies identify and remove barriers to equal employment opportunity (EEO). MD-715 introduced six essential elements to establish and maintain a model EEO program which “ensures that all employees and applicants for employment

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Operators of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities Country Club Retirement Center V, LLC, Holland Management, Inc., and Holland Management HZ, LLC, violated federal laws when they discriminated and retaliated against a former nursing aide, a disabled veteran, and engaged in classwide discrimination and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, the companies discriminated and retaliated against a female veteran who

SEATTLE – A building supply company doing business as Builders FirstSource north of the Seattle area violated federal law when it terminated a qualified worker’s assignment because of his age and the assumption that he had a physical impairment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed Monday.

Assigned by a third-party staffing company, the 67-year-old worker reported for his first day of work as an assembler at Builders FirstSource’s truss

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wal-Mart Stores East, LP, will pay $175,000 and furnish other relief to settle disability discrimination lawsuits brought by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against three Walmart retail stores located in Statesville, Henderson, and Raleigh, North Carolina.  

Today the EEOC announced the resolution of three lawsuits filed to correct the unlawful practice of failing to provide intermittent leave as a reasonable accommodation:

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wal-Mart Stores East, LP,

BALTIMORE – GBMC Hospital violated federal law when it discriminated against a deaf employee because of disability and retaliated against her for asking for an accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, GBMC hired a registered nurse (RN) who is deaf to work at its main hospital. When GBMC learned that the RN is deaf after she requested accommodations, GBMC rescinded the offer of

PHOENIX – Walmart, Inc., the largest grocery store chain in the United States, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, Walmart fired cashier Stevey Wiman from its Bullhead City, Arizona, location because she had seizures causing her to miss work. Walmart’s attendance policy allows for absences to be excused for disability

FARGO, N.D. – Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, violated federal law by terminating an employee because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, a company driver who formerly delivered mail between various post offices on a route between Watertown and Corona in northeastern South Dakota had a physical

MIAMI – Divine Boiling Group, LLC, doing business as Crab Knight, a family-style seafood restaurant in Daytona Beach, Florida, will pay $30,000 and other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, over a period of several weeks, the restaurant’s kitchen manager made repeated discriminatory comments about an employee’s age and finding someone younger to replace her, before

DALLAS – Castle Hills Master Association Inc., and parent companies Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC, which manage several residential communities in the Dallas area, violated federal law when they fired a resident coordinator after she was hospitalized due to her pregnancy-related disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the pregnant resident coordinator was diagnosed with placenta previa

CLOVIS, N.M. – Allen Theatres, Inc., which operates a chain of movie theaters across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, violated federal law when it discriminated against its older employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, Allen Theaters discriminated against Abby Parrish, a manager at the Clovis, New Mexico location, when the president of the company forced him to retire in September 2020, and refused

NORFOLK, Va. – Virginia International Terminals, LLC (VIT), a marine terminal operator headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, violated federal law by refusing to allow an employee to return to his position following medical treatment for a heart condition, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. 

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the employee, who previously worked at Norfolk International Terminals as a hustler truck driver, was hospitalized because of a cardiac

WASHINGTON – Inova Surgery Center, LLC, which operates outpatient surgery centers in Northern Virginia, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by firing an employee because of her disability and age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a suit filed today. 

According to the lawsuit, when a 52-year-old radiologic technician requested an extension of her medical leave to recover from carpal tunnel surgery, Inova

HOUSTON – Employment & Training Centers, Inc. (ETC), a human resource consulting firm, will pay $35,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, following a conditional job offer, ETC refused to reasonably accommodate an applicant who said he was unable to produce a urine specimen for drug testing because of end-stage kidney disease. The company failed to

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sanmina Corporation, a provider of electronic manufacturing services, violated federal law when it fired an employee because of her disability and to avoid the need for a reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, the employee had osteoarthritis and other conditions that made movements such as walking across Sanmina’s large parking lot difficult and painful. Sanmina had previously refused to