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MOBILE, Ala. – Bollinger Shipyards, LLC, a provider of marine construction, repair and conversion services employing more than 300 workers at 10 shipyards located across the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts, violated federal law by excluding an employee from work because she used a prescription medication to treat opioid dependency, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC charged that Bollinger placed the worker on involuntary indefinite unpaid leave

MOBILE, Ala. – Cosmos, a restaurant in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi operated by Smoke BBQ LLC, violated federal law by firing a server because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that in November 2023, the server told her colleagues about her pregnancy shortly after she started working at the restaurant. The next day, after Cosmos managers heard about her pregnancy, she

MOBILE, Ala. – Ground Zero Biloxi LLC, which operates a blues club located in Biloxi, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting an assistant manager to sexual harassment by one of its co-owners and firing the worker for complaining about the co-owner’s harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC charged that one of the blues club’s co-owners subjected the assistant manager to a campaign of sexual harassment

FRESNO, Calif. – The Washington Unified School District, located in Fresno, Calif., settled a federal charge of age discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $17,000 and other injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

An EEOC charge of discrimination was filed in April 2022, alleging that the employee was denied reasonable accommodation, subjected to different terms and conditions of employment, and finally discharged because of age and disability. The EEOC

FRESNO, Calif. – Real Time Staffing Services, LLC, doing business as Select Staffing, will pay $500,000 and furnish injunctive relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC brought the lawsuit on behalf of a class of female agricultural workers, including many temporary workers directly employed by Select Staffing.

The EEOC’s related suit against National Raisin recently settled with a $2,000,000 fund

MOBILE, Ala.  – Hank’s Furniture, Inc. (HFI), a nationwide furniture retailer, will pay $110,000 and furnish other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, a former assistant manager at HFI’s Pensacola, Florida, location notified the company that her religious beliefs prevented her from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Rather than discuss the employee’s religious beliefs to determine the

FRESNO, Calif. – The Tulare City School District settled a federal charge of national origin discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $45,000 and other injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, the Tulare City School District failed to promote an employee to the position of principal because of his Hispanic national origin, regardless of his qualifications and ability to do the job.

The EEOC investigated the

MOBILE, Ala. and CHICAGO – Harmony Hospitality LLC, which operates a Home2 Suites by Hilton hotel in Dothan, Alabama, and LAS Hardwoods, a hardwood flooring company in the Chicago area, violated federal civil rights law when they each discriminated against an employee because of his sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or failure to adhere to gender stereotypes, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two separate lawsuits filed today.

According to the Alabama lawsuit

FRESNO, Calif. – Sunshine Raisin Corp., doing business as National Raisin, will pay $2 million and furnish extensive injunctive relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC brought the lawsuit on behalf of a class of female agricultural workers, many of whom only speak Spanish.  

The EEOC lawsuit charged that National Raisin subjected female workers to a sexually hostile work

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Walmart will pay $70,000 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.

The EEOC charged that Walmart violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it revoked permission from an employee with a disability to use a store electric cart as a reasonable accommodation for a disability, forcing him to take unpaid leave. According to the

FRESNO, Calif. – Elaine’s Pet Resort, LP and Elaine’s Animal House Inc. (collectively, “Elaine’s Pet”), who operate pet resorts in Fresno and Madera, California, violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable accommodation to a class of applicants and employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, since at least 2021, Elaine’s Pet failed to engage in the interactive process and provide a reasonable accommodation

FRESNO, Calif. – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has settled a federal charge of disability discrimination and retaliation filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH), located in the Hugh Burns State Building, a department under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, denied a reasonable accom­modation to an employee for continued telework without engaging in

FRESNO, Calif. – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has settled a federal charge of disability filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for significant training and other injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, Wasco State Prison, a facility under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, denied a reasonable accommodation to an employee which obligated them to utilize accrued leave instead of remaining on the job

FRESNO, Calif. – The County of Fresno will pay $50,000 and will provide other injunctive relief to settle a federal charge of race and age discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, the County of Fresno’s Department of Human Resources did not promote a qualified older black employee for two promotional opportunities.

The EEOC investigated the allegations and found reasonable cause to believe

FRESNO, Calif. — Sunshine Raisin Corporation, dba National Raisin, and Real Time Staffing Services, LLC, dba Select Staffing, violated federal law when they failed to prevent and correct grievous sexual harassment and retaliated against female employees who reported the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
    
According to the lawsuit, the federal agency alleges that since 2011 female employees working at National Raisin’s Fowler, Calif. production