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DETROIT – William Beaumont Hospital, doing business as Beaumont Health System, operators of Beaumont Hospital, located in Wayne, Michigan, failed to accommodate an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Beaumont determined that the employee, a registered nurse, could not work fewer than 32 hours a week in her then-current position as an accommodation for her medical work restriction

PHOENIX – A Walmart store in Bullhead City, Arizona violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation for a cashier who has a seizure disorder, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.

According to the EEOC, Walmart fired Stevey Wiman because she had seizures that caused her to miss work. Walmart’s attendance policy allows for absences to be excused as an accommodation for a disability. But

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Roark-Whitten Hospitality 2, LP, doing business as the Whitten Inn, and its successor purchaser of the hotel SGI, LLC, will pay $87,000 to settle a long-fought lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging color, race, and national origin harassment, the federal agency announced. The money will be paid as compensatory damages to the aggrieved individuals harmed by the discrimination.

The EEOC sued Whitten Inn alleging that former owner

RALEIGH, N.C. – NSN, LLC, a Virginia Corporation which provides staffing for a licensing and vocational testing center in Raleigh, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $42,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. 

According to the EEOC’s complaint, the employee for whom the EEOC sought relief worked as a part-time testing center administrator in the Raleigh

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sanderson Farms, LLC and Sanderson Farms, LLC (Processing Division), divisions of the nation’s third-largest producer of chicken products, have agreed to pay $62,384 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its suit, the EEOC charged that the companies fired a long-term disabled employee at their processing plant in Summit, Mississippi after he sought

DALLAS – Pete’s Car Smart Inc., a car dealership based in Amarillo, Texas, violated federal law by firing a long-time employee based on her age and cardiovascular-related disability, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee worked for Pete’s Car Smart for nearly 18 years. The employee underwent bypass heart surgery in early 2021 requiring a brief medical leave of absence. In the days leading up to her return from leave

ELKINS, W.Va. – Red Barchetta LLC, a Holiday Inn Express & Suites-brand franchisee in Elkins, West Virginia, will pay $40,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a former employee, the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Red Barchetta employed a housekeeper with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma for over seven years at its Elkins, West Virginia hotel. After a

MINNEAPOLIS – R & G Endeavors, Inc., a fast-food franchisee doing business as Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, violated federal law when it subjected employees to a hostile work environment based on race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two lawsuits filed today. The litigation also charges the Minnesota company with denying a long-serving employee with a disability equal pay and pay raises because of his disability

NEW YORK – Conduent State and Local Solutions, Inc., a business services provider that operates the New York E-ZPass toll collection system, and Broadleaf Results, Inc., an employment agency, will collectively pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee was placed by Broadleaf to work as a customer service representative at

ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and crafts retailer, will pay $50,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Hobby Lobby violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to allow a part-time clerk at its Olathe, Kansas store to use her service dog on the job as a reasonable accommodation

NEW ORLEANS – Goodwill Industries of Southeast Louisiana, Inc. has agreed to pay a former employee $60,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The lawsuit was resolved through a consent decree, which

U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier approved on May 1.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Goodwill fired and denied rehire to an employee who suffered an ankle injury after recently being

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, a construction management and general contracting company headquartered in Baltimore, will pay $1.2 million to a class of Black former workers and furnish other relief to settle a race harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Whiting-Turner served as the prime contractor for the con­struction of the Google Data Center in

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – LM Wind Power Blades, Inc, a wind turbine blade manufacturer, violated federal law when it subjected an African American employee to a racially hostile work environment and then retaliated against him for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed May 4, 2023.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the African American employee was the target of sustained racial hostility from white employees and supervisors, which included

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Mead Johnson & Company, a manufacturer of baby formula, violated federal law at its Zeeland, Michigan facility by failing to provide a reasonable accom­modation to an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis­sion (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a 32-year employee of Mead Johnson underwent major foot and ankle surgery in July 2020 that was complicated by a post-operative infection. She

RALEIGH, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s disability-related leave and fired her for violating the company’s attendance policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee was hired in July 2016 and worked stocking shelves in the candy aisle. In September 2016, the employee was diagnosed with epileptic seizure disorder. The condition causes

WASHINGTON –The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a technical assistance document, “Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment in the Federal Sector,” which provides practical tips for preventing and addressing harassment within the federal civilian workforce.

“The EEOC remains committed to combating workplace harassment on all bases and providing federal agencies with the tools they need to advance anti-harassment efforts,” said EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “This document will serve as a

LAS VEGAS – DTG Las Vegas, LLC; Fifth Street Gaming, LLC; and DTG Las Vegas Manager, LLC (collectively doing business as “Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino”) violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to a class of employees with disabilities, interfering with employees’ rights, and retaliating against those who exercised their rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, since at least 2018

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Transportation LLC (Sandia), a non-emergency medical transportation company with its principal place of business in Albuquerque, New Mexico, violated federal law by subjecting several female transportation workers to illegal harassment based on their sex and sexual orientation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed on Friday.

According to the EEOC, Sandia subjected female employees to harassment because of their sex, because they were lesbians, or

RALEIGH, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s disability-related leave and fired him for violating the company’s attendance policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on several occasions from April 2017 through August 2018, Walmart refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to a general merchandise support manager with a disability who was suffering from

RENO, Nev. – E-commerce remanufacturer PRC Industries (PRC) violated federal law by tolerating racial harassment of two Black workers and firing them in retaliation for reporting the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s suit, two Black workers, a married couple hired in Jan. 2020 to work at PRC’s repair facility in Reno, Nev., faced constant racial taunts and slurs, including the ‘n-word,’ from their

ATLANTA – Total Systems Services, LLC, a global payments processing company based in Columbus, Georgia, violated federal law by denying repeated requests by an employee with a disability for remote work as a reasonable accommodation due to increased risks related to COVID-19, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The company further violated the law by retaliating against her for taking medical leave to avoid exposure, the EEOC said

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s disability-related leave and discharged her for violating the company’s attendance policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on several occasions from November 2016 through April 2017, Walmart refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deli associate who was suffering from symptoms related to Crohn’s disease

BOSTON – Otis Worldwide Corporation, doing business as Otis Elevator Company — a global company based in Farmington, Connecticut that constructs, repairs, modernizes, and maintains elevators, escalators, and related equipment — violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with disabilities and retaliating against him, the U.S. Equal Emplo­yment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Otis Elevator discriminated against an assistant mechanic

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A federal judge has ruled as a matter of law that United Parcel Service, ­Inc. violated federal law by failing to accommodate and then firing an employee because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, an employee who suffers from diabetes asked a UPS human resources supervisor at a Jacksonville warehouse location for the accommodation of an occasional short break to check