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MINNEAPOLIS – North Memorial Health, a health care provider that operates two hospitals and 26 specialty and primary care clinics, urgent and emergency care facilities and medical transportation services throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, will pay $180,000 and provide 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 EEOC’s lawsuit, in July 2020, North Memorial Health failed to

ATLANTA – ISS Facility Services, Inc. (ISS), a workplace experience and facility management company, will pay $47,500 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Ronisha Moncrief worked for ISS as a health and safety manager. From March 2020 through June 2020, ISS required its employees to work remotely four days per

ATLANTA – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), a pediatric healthcare system in Georgia, violated federal law when it fired a maintenance assistant for requesting a religious exemption to its influenza vaccination policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the maintenance employee, in accordance with CHOA’s procedures, requested a religious exemption to CHOA’s flu vaccination requirements based on sincerely held religious beliefs. CHOA

CHICAGO – Rural Office of Community Services Inc., a Wagner, South Dakota-based social services agency, which serves low-income families and individuals across multiple locations in South Dakota, will pay $320,000 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 federal agency announced today.

The agreement resolves a charge filed with the EEOC alleging Rural Office of Community Services

ATLANTA – Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation, a public hospital in Atlanta, Ga., will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

 According to the EEOC’s suit, Grady violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee’s disability and then firing her because of that disability. The employee requested approxi­mately five weeks of leave from work due to

CHICAGO – Automaker Ford Motor Company will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Ford violated federal law when it when it refused to hire a pregnant applicant to work at its stamping plant in Chicago Heights, Illinois, due to her pregnancy.  Ford extended the applicant a conditional offer, subject to

CHICAGO – Pivotal Home Solutions, a home warranty company headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, will pay $175,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a former employee worked at Pivotal Home Solutions (“Pivotal”) as a dispatcher through a staffing agency for nearly six months. During that time, she succeeded in her role, received no

MILWAUKEE – Lakeside Plastics, a manufacturing company that produces traffic safety products, screen printing inks, and plastisol formulations located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, violated civil rights law when it subjected a Black employee to a hostile work environment because of his race and then fired him in retaliation for opposing the racial harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the Black employee worked for

ATLANTA – Nationwide retailer Dolgencorp, LLC, which does business as Dollar General, violated federal law when it fired a sales employee due to her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, on or about Sept. 15, 2020, the sales employee was fired immediately after informing Dollar General’s store manager of her pregnancy. When the employee talked to the store manager about returning to

ATLANTA – Fischer Connectors, Inc., a Swiss-based national manufacturer of circular connectors used in medical devices, violated federal law when it fired its human resources director due to her age (67), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, in early 2019, Fischer Connectors hired a new president, and under the direction of the president and chief executive officer, the company made plans to eliminate

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

CHICAGO -- Lacey’s Place LLC Series Midlothian, doing business as Lacey’s Place, which owns and operates more than 30 video gaming parlors in Illinois, violated civil rights law by paying female district managers lower wages than male district managers on the basis of sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, female district managers were paid less than their male coworkers since at least

ROCKFORD, Ill. – Kelley Williamson Company, a Rockford-based gas station, and convenience store operator, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging sexual harassment and improper disclosure of confidential medical information, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee at Kelley Williamson’s Byron, Illinois gas station was subjected to months of sexual advances and crude jokes by

CHICAGO – A dog kennel company in suburban Chicago, Rover’s Place, will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC charged alleging that Rover’s Place subjected an employee to a hostile work environment, inquired into his medical history, and forced him to quit his job because of his opioid addiction disability.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the

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

ATLANTA – Del Frisco’s of Georgia, LLC, a restaurant located in Atlanta, violated federal law by firing a server when her religious beliefs conflicted with her work schedule, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, beginning in January 2019, the employee requested and was granted an accommodation of not working on Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings so she could attend prayer and church

ATLANTA – Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation, a public hospital in Atlanta, violated federal law by failing to accommodate its employee’s disability and then firing her because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a recently filed lawsuit.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee requested approximately five weeks of leave from work due to a medical condition. The EEOC alleges that the employee attempted to return from leave as scheduled

CHICAGO – S&C Electric Company, a designer and manufacturer of switching and control products for power transmission and distribution headquartered in Chicago, will pay $315,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a principal designer who worked at S&C for over 52 years was diagnosed with cancer and later sustained a broken hip

MINNEAPOLIS – North Memorial Health violated civil rights law when it failed to hire an applicant who is deaf because of her disability and failed to provide her a reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in Minnesota today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the individual applied for a greeter position in July 2020 at North Memorial Health, which is a health care provider that operates two hospitals

CHICAGO – Long John Silver’s will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that Long John Silver’s violated federal law when it subjected a teenage female employee at its Centralia, Illinois restaurant to sexual harassment. The federal agency said that the company failed to stop harassment by two adult male managers and retaliated

MILWAUKEE – Pensec, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation which operates nine McDonald’s fast food restaurants, will pay $31,137 and furnish other relief to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Pensec failed or refused to hire Black applicants because of their race. Unsuccessful black applicants at the location were told the store manager, “Don’t like n-----s,” and that the store

ATLANTA – Ranew’s Management Company, Inc. (“Ranew’s”), a local, state, and national provider of fabrication, coating, and assembly products, will pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a Ranew’s employee informed the company of his diagnosis of severe depression and requested to take three weeks off work, per his doctor’s recommendation. Ranew’s CEO told the

OTTUMWA, Iowa – Walmart violated federal law when it gave a Black female employee an unsanitary lactation space based upon her race and failed to promote her based on sex stereotypes about mothers with small children, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

The EEOC’s pre-suit investigation revealed that Walmart failed to promote the employee to a management position at its Ottumwa store because it assumed she would

CHICAGO – Kelley Williamson Company, which owns and operates gas stations and con­venience stores, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee at its Byron, Illinois gas station and convenience store to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com­mission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. The federal agency said that the company failed to stop harassment by a male customer. The federal agency further alleged that the company did not keep