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CHICAGO. – Giertsen Company of Wisconsin, a company that provides restoration services for residential and commercial clients to repair fire, water, or wind damage, violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment consisting of racial slurs and racial comments toward its black employees, and wrongfully engaged in retaliation by firing an employee who complained about the racist treatment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.  

Such alleged

CHICAGO – General Truck Parts, a supplier of new and used truck parts with a facility in Chicago, violated federal law when its owner subjected an employee to unwelcome sexual and national origin harassment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the owner routinely made derogatory comments about Hispanic employees and made sexually explicit comments about female employees.

Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Iowa-based trucking company Schuster Co. has agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Schuster’s use of the CRT test, a strength test developed by Davenport, Iowa-based Cost Reduction Technologies, Inc., discriminated against women truck drivers because of their sex. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that the CRT test disproportionately screens out women who are

CHICAGO – Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (“Fermi”), the particle physics and accelerator laboratory in Batavia, Ill., will pay $100,000 to resolve a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, EEOC v. Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, Civil Action No. 18-cv-5486, Fermi violated federal law when they failed to promote a female engineer in retaliation for her complaint of sex-based discrimination. Such alleged

CHICAGO – Automaker Ford Motor Company violated federal law when it refused to hire a pregnant applicant to work at its stamping plant in Chicago Heights, Illinois, due to her pregnancy the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in Chicago yesterday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female applicant received a conditional offer of hire in June 2019 to work at the Chicago Heights stamping plant, subject to passing a

MILWAUKEE – A major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, Baumann Farms, violated civil rights law when it subjected female employees to a hostile work environment, and then fired them in retaliation for opposition to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in Wisconsin today. The EEOC also charged Baumann Farms with national origin discrimination against Hispanic employees.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employees worked for Baumann Farms

MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge has ruled as a matter of law that Stan Koch & Sons Trucking violated federal law by using a strength test developed by Cost Reduction Technologies because it discriminates against women truck drivers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. Koch, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a family-owned trucking company with over 1,000 trucks which operates both nationally and on regional and local routes.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit

HOUSTON – Industrial equipment and services companies The Modern Group, Ltd. and Beaumont, Texas-based Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC violated federal law when Dragon Rig refused to hire a job applicant because of his use of prescription medication to treat his anxiety and opioid addiction disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Aug. 19. The companies operate as integrated enterprise, the EEOC says.

According to the EEOC’s

CHICAGO – An eight-member jury in Green Bay, Wisconsin returned a verdict of $125,150,000 in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on three claims of disability discrimination against Walmart, the federal agency announced today.  

The jury found that the retailer failed to accommodate Marlo Spaeth, a longtime employee with Down syndrome, and then fired her in July 2015 because of her disability.  

The EEOC presented evidence that a change Walmart

CHICAGO – Long John Silver’s violated federal law when it subjected female employees at its Centralia, Ill., restaurant to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The federal agency said that the company failed to stop harassment by two male restaurant employees and also retaliated against one female employee who objected to the harassment.

The EEOC’s pre-suit investigation revealed that two male supervisors subjected female employees

MINNEAPOLIS -- AscensionPoint Recovery Services, LLC (APRS), a Minnesota-based estate and probate debt recovery company that manages decedent debt recovery for creditors, violated federal law when it fired a Christian employee instead of accommodating his request not to be fingerprinted due to his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC’s pre-suit investigation revealed that APRS had requested that its employees be finger-printed as a result of

MADISON, Wis. – A jury has determined that RockAuto, a Madison, Wis.-headquartered internet-based auto parts seller, violated federal law when it failed to hire a qualified job applicant because of his age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the applicant, Glenn McKewen, applied for a position as a supply chain manager at the company’s Madison headquarters in 2016. McKewen had years of relevant experience as well as

CHICAGO – Symphony of Joliet, a nursing home, rehabilitation center and long-term residential care facility in Joliet, Ill., violated federal civil rights laws by disadvantaging pregnant employees in various ways, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

Julianne Bowman, the district director of the EEOC’s office in Chicago, said that the EEOC’s pre-suit investigation revealed that Symphony had a written policy that required pregnant women to disclose their pregnancies

NEW ORLEANS – American River Transportation Company (ARTCO), headquartered in Decatur, Ill., will pay a former employee $40,000 to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. ARTCO provides river transportation services, including barges and a shipyard, to its parent company, Archer Daniels Midland, and to third-party clients.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in 2019, a Black deckhand was subjected to racial harassment

MINNEAPOLIS – Lake States Lumber, Inc., a company operating in Duluth, Minn., has agreed to pay $100,000 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 suit, an employee who worked for Lake States Lumber, a manufacturer and wholesale distributor of lumber and wood products, took leave for heart surgery. After surgery, his doctors released him to return to work

DECATUR, Ill. – Walmart violated federal law by failing to provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for an applicant and failing to hire the qualified applicant because he is deaf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.

According to Julianne Bowman, the EEOC’s district director in Chicago, the EEOC’s pre-suit administrative investigation revealed that after the applicant applied for a position at Walmart Store #2728 in Decatur

HOUSTON – Burrow Global Services, LLC, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will pay a former employee $50,960 to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Burrow Global provides engineering, design, and related technical services for clients in the petrochemical and refining industries.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in 2020, a senior electrical designer over age 60 was subjected to age discrimination when a much

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Security Associates, Inc., a security company doing business as Conshohocken, Pa.-based Allied Universal, has agreed to pay a uniformed security guard $110,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Allied Universal provides security services nationally and internationally.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that Allied Universal transferred a security guard at a Baton Rouge location to a more strenuous post after

HOUSTON – T&T Subsea, LLC, a Galveston marine services company, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable 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, after being diagnosed with cancer, the commercial diver continued to work for T&T through his chemotherapy and radiation treatment until he took leave for surgery. When he notified T&T that he was ready

NEW ORLEANS – The former operators of a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Monroe, La., will pay $400,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The former operators of the hotel — Aimbridge Hospitality, LLC and AH 2007 Management, LP (collect­ively, Aimbridge) — are based in Plano, Tex., and manage hotels nationally and internationally.

According to the

CHICAGO – Three companies operating a now-closed Harley-Davidson dealership in Glenview, Ill., have agreed to pay a former employee $193,750 and furnish other relief under a consent decree rather than face trial for the employee’s sex harassment and retaliatory firing claims in a case brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that managers and coworkers at the dealership subjected a female employee to constant sex harassment