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LOS ANGELES – TEG Staffing, Inc., doing business as Eastridge Workforce Solutions, a southern California-based staffing agency, agreed to pay $185,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee assigned by the company to work at Feit Electric’s Pico Rivera, California warehouse location was subjected to sex discrimination when she

MIAMI – Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) agreed to conciliate a sexual hostile work environment and retaliation charge involving two employees at an Orlando KFC location with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

During the EEOC’s charge investigation, the agency found reasonable cause to believe KFC violated federal law by subjecting an employee to a sexually hostile work environment and then firing her in January 2022 in retaliation for

MIAMI – The Miami District of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) successfully conciliated two discrimination charges on behalf of pregnant women, the federal agency announced today.

The first charge, against Brandt Information Services, Inc., a technology solutions company based in Tallahassee, Florida, claimed the company terminated a pregnant employee in November 2023 after she requested two and a half months of unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

LOS ANGELES – Meathead Movers Inc., the largest independent moving company based in San Luis Obispo, California, agreed to pay up to $2 million for individuals who were not hired into various positions due to age or because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced today.

The company agreed to hire qualified individuals into various positions including laborers, movers, customer service agents, and other positions, committing up to $1 million annually

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that a federal court ordered Vallarta Food Enterprises, Inc., and related companies, a supermarket chain with approximately 80 locations in Central and Southern California, to fully comply with subpoenas the agency issued in September 2024 relating to Commissioner-initiated charges.

Specifically, the charge alleged that Vallarta Supermarkets failed or refused to recruit, hire, or promote individuals based on their race (white, black, and/or Asian)

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., sellers of timeshare programs for hotels and vacation clubs, agreed to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $175,000 and significant non-monetary relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that management at Marriott Vacations Worldwide and Marriott Ownership Resorts initially provided a religious accommodation for a Seventh-Day Adventist employee which allowed her

MIAMI – Renovation Flooring, LLC and its parent company, Payfin Enterprises, LLC, located in Miramar Beach, Florida, violated federal law when its owner and CEO sexually harassed multiple female employees and then retaliated against his executive assistant when she refused to submit to his sexual advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) charged in a federal lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the owner subjected his executive assistant and other female employees at

MIAMI – Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida, LLC, which operates National, Enterprise and Alamo car rental services in Florida, will pay $1.8 million and provide significant non-monetary relief to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that Enterprise failed to hire candidates aged 40 or older for its management trainee position from at least 2019 to the present. While approximately 15%

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – iPro Dental Laboratory, Inc., a Fort Lauderdale manufacturer of dental restoration products used by dental practices nationwide, violated federal law when it fired a recently hired employee because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, iPro Dental hired a woman in January 2023, describing her as “perfect” for the position of office assistant at its Fort Lauderdale

ST. LOUIS – The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and against Omaha, Nebraska-based Werner Trucking on July 10.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged Werner violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it refused to hire a qualified deaf truck driver because he was deaf. In September 2023, a Nebraska jury agreed and awarded $75,000 in compensatory damages and $36 million in

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today it filed an action in federal court to enforce a subpoena issued during its investigation into claims of illegal hiring practices by Vallarta Food Enterprises, Inc. and related companies, collectively known as the trade name Vallarta Supermarkets, in Central and Southern California.

Vallarta Supermarkets is a family-owned supermarket chain with approximately 80 locations throughout Central and Southern California., and a corporate office located

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Malone Workforce Solutions subjected female employees at the company’s Omaha, Nebraska, healthcare staffing office to unlawful sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, male employees continually made harassing and derogatory comments to female employees and engaged in lewd, sexually explicit conversations in open work spaces where female employees could not avoid them. When one of the women asked to be

MIAMI – Waste Pro of Florida agreed to pay $1.4 million and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Waste Pro subjected 26 black and/or Haitian American workers to frequent, severe harassment because of their race and national origin. Black sanitation workers in Jacksonville were often called by horrific racial

ST. LOUIS – Miller’s Grill, a Washington, Missouri restaurant, violated federal law when its owner made crude sexual comments and inappropriately touched an employee, then demoted her, reduced her hours, and failed to pay her at the appropriate pay rate because of her sex and because she refused his sexual advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Miller’s Grill owner Larry Miller made

FRESNO, Calif. – Elaine’s Pet Resorts, et. al., which operates pet resorts in Fresno and Madera, California, will pay $35,000 and provide other relief to resolve a disability lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2021, Elaine’s Pet Resorts failed to hire or terminated employees who failed the company’s post-offer drug screening, despite the medications being lawfully prescribed.

Such

ST. LOUIS – The Carlstar Group LLC, a Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty tires and wheels, violated federal law when it discriminated against employees at its facilities in Clinton and Jackson, Tennessee, and Aiken, South Carolina, because the workers lawfully used certain prescription medications to treat their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, since at least January 2020, Carlstar has denied opportunities to

LOS ANGELES – The United Parcel Service (UPS) in Santa Barbara, California, will pay $10,000 and furnish other injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment charge filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a member of a class of injured parties, the federal agency announced today.

An EEOC charge of discrimination was filed on Dec. 6, 2021, alleging that UPS created a hostile work environment by failing to address ongoing

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., which sell vacation timeshare programs for hotels and vacation clubs, violated federal law when they failed to accommodate an employee’s request not to work Saturdays so she could observe Sabbath, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, management at Marriott Vacations Worldwide and Marriott Ownership Resorts initially allowed an employee, who is

MIAMI – Three Florida construction parts and auto mechanic companies have agreed to pay $215,699 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building Products, LLC, subjected Black and Hispanic employees to racial slurs, including supervisors calling employees the “N-word,” “lazy spic,”

MIAMI – Florida Care ALF of Amelia Island, Inc., doing business as Amelia Springs Assisted Living, has agreed to pay $20,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, as soon as Amelia Springs Assisted Living management learned that one of their temporary staffers was pregnant, they refused to give her more shifts and

GUAM – LeoPalace Guam Corporation, doing business as LeoPalace Resort, a major hotel and resort on the U.S. territory of Guam, will pay $1,412,500 and provide equitable relief to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from as early as 2015, LeoPalace provided non-Japanese employees—including multiple former employees of American national origin—in Guam with less favorable wages

LOS ANGELES – Orange County-based construction company Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc. will pay $730,000 and furnish extensive injunctive relief to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that, since at least 2019, Goodsell/Wilkins’ supervisors, leads and coworkers subjected a class of male Hispanic or Latino workers to severe or pervasive harassment based on their race or national origin. Workers were referred to

ST. LOUIS – Dolgencorp, LLC, which operates Dollar General stores nationwide, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee with disabilities, forced her to quit when she called in sick, and retaliated against her for reporting the conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, the manager at Dollar General’s Olustee, Oklahoma, location told the employee, who suffers from panic attacks, that the

MIAMI – Kane’s Furniture, LLC, a Florida-based furniture retail company, will pay $1,482,748.00 in monetary relief and provide significant equitable relief to settle a federal class sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that since at least 2021, Kane’s Furniture implemented a discriminatory policy of not hiring female applicants for driver and warehouse positions at their distribution center or any of their eighteen retail