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BOSTON — Option Care Health, Inc., a nationwide provider of infusion-therapy services, violated federal law when it failed to provide an employee with a reasonable accommodation for symptoms related to her pregnancy in June and July of 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, an infusion nurse based in New Hampshire, whose job involved visiting patients at their homes and virtually, requested a

NORFOLK, Va. – Virginia International Terminals, LLC (VIT), a marine terminal operator headquartered in Norfolk, will pay $20,000 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 suit, the employee worked at VIT-operated Norfolk International Terminals driving a hustler truck, which moves shipping containers around Norfolk International Terminals at a maximum speed of 20 mph. The driver

NORFOLK, Va. — Franklin, Virginia-based Mid Atlantic Dairy Queen, LLC, doing business as Dairy Queen, entered into conciliation agreements with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve two sexual harassment charges, the federal agency announced today.

The agreements resolve charges where the EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe the company violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing two former employees who worked at the company’s Granby Street location in Norfolk and the Landstown

NORFOLK, Va. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has successfully recovered money owed to a victim of discrimination from Value Unlimited, Inc., doing business as ChowCall, a food delivery service in Norfolk, Virginia, and secured the company’s compliance with terms of the conciliation agreement with the EEOC.

According to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC, Value Unlimited failed to fully comply with its obligations under a September 2022 conciliation agreement resolving allegations

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

BOSTON – Atlantic Properties Management Corporation and its affiliate, Diversified Funding, Inc., property management companies in Boston, violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a new hire with a disability and subsequently withdrawing her job offer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the individual was offered employment as an executive administrative assistant to the president and vice president of

BOSTON - Bob’s Tire Company, Inc., a used tire scrap and recycling facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts, violated federal law by subjecting male and Hispanic employees — nearly all of Guatemalan descent — to sexual, racial, and/or national origin harassment, and retaliated against one employee who complained about sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the owner of Bob’s Tire, Robert

BOSTON – Remote-first global technology company Digital Arbitrage, Inc., doing business as Cloudbeds, will pay $150,000 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, during their hiring process Cloudbeds failed to provide an accommodation to Peter St. John, a well-qualified candidate in IT administration who is deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Cloudbeds terminated his

BOSTON – Digital Arbitrage, Inc., doing business as Cloudbeds—an international, remote-first technology company that employs individuals around the world—violated federal law by denying an applicant’s request for an accommodation in the interview process and by refusing to hire the applicant based on his disability, the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in January 2022, Peter St. John applied to work as a remote IT administrator

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Parris Pizza Company, LLC, the former owner of a Domino’s Pizza franchise in Olean, New York, has agreed to pay $150,000 and provide other relief to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, beginning in at least 2019, Parris Pizza permitted Black employees to be harassed by White coworkers.  The mistreatment included two shift managers’

BOSTON – LeachGarner, Inc., a metallurgical manufacturer and supplier, violated federal law when it discriminated against a class of female employees by segregating its manufacturing workforce by sex and paying them less than male production workers at its Attleboro, Massachusetts facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC alleges that, since at least January of 2017, LeachGarner routinely assigned female manufacturing employees to lower-paying jobs. The manufacturing

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