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CHARLESTON, W.V. – Wrightway Ready-Mix, LLC, and Wright Concrete & Construction, Inc., related concrete-construction companies operating in Delbarton, West Virginia, unlawfully questioned a job applicant about using methadone as part of medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction and then refused to hire him because of his answer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, when a job applicant went to a Wrightway facility in Delbarton

ENCINITAS, Calif. – Swami’s Café, a chain of casual breakfast and lunch service restaurants in San Diego County, and the casual restaurant Honey’s Bistro will pay $650,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a class of young women, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, beginning as early as 2019, nine locations of the

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

Pittsburgh – Center One, LLC, a provider of consumer debt collection services, and Capital Management Services, LP, a related company based in Buffalo, New York, will pay $60,000 to settle a religious accommodation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged that in October 2016, a Center One employee, an adherent of Messianic Judaism, requested a reasonable accommodation of his religious belief requiring abstaining

Pittsburgh – Center One, LLC, a provider of consumer debt collection services, and Capital Management Services, LP, a related company based in Buffalo, New York, will pay $60,000 to settle a religious accommodation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged that in October 2016, a Center One employee, an adherent of Messianic Judaism, requested a reasonable accommodation of his religious belief requiring abstaining

PITTSBURGH – GMRI, Inc., doing business as Olive Garden, will pay $30,000 and agreed to significant non-monetary remedies under a consent decree settling 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, the general manager of GMRI’s Olive Garden restaurant in Tarentum, Pennsylvania interviewed an applicant with a disability for a busser position. During the interview, the general manager asked the

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

SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages victims of or witnesses to sexual harassment at Swami’s restaurants to come forward and report their experiences to the federal agency in connection with an EEOC lawsuit against the chain.

On May 17, 2023, the EEOC filed a lawsuit in federal court against Swami’s for sexual harassment and retaliation. The respondents include Swami’s 101 LLC dba Swami’s Café; Swami’s Vista LLC; Swami’s Carlsbad LLC

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

SAN DIEGO – Scripps Clinical Medical Group has settled an age and disability discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after it subjected a class of physicians to a mandatory retirement age, regardless of the individuals’ abilities to do the job, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC investigated the allegations and found reasonable cause to believe that Scripps Clinical Medical Group violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and

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

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Weis Markets, Inc., a chain of grocery stores throughout the Mid-Atlantic and headquartered in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, subjected an employee to sexual harassment and discharged her when she refused to comply with an unlawful directive to participate in the company’s employee assistance program, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a supervisor at Weis Markets’ Mifflintown, Pennsylvania store subjected a female employee to

CLARKSBURG, W.V. – Clarksburg Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC), which oversees an electrician apprenticeship program in North-Central West Virginia, has agreed to pay $150,000 and provide injunctive relief to resolve charges of sex discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC investigation found that the Clarksburg Electrical JATC denied three female applicants admission to its apprenticeship and training program because they were female; used

LEWISBURG, W.Va. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it subjected female employees to sexual harassment and fired a female employee in retaliation for reporting the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the manager of Walmart Supercenter #1499 in Lewisburg, West Virginia, subjected a class of female employees to egregious sexual harassment, including unwelcome and offensive sexual touching, requests for

PITTSBURGH - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has won a victory in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in its employment discrimination lawsuit against Coastal Drilling East, LLC and Coastal Well Service, LLC, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC originally filed the racial harassment case against Coastal Drilling East, LLC (Coastal Drilling), a Pennsylvania-based company that provides geotechnical construction services in the oil and natural gas industry, on September 13, 2021. According to

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

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

WHEELING, W.V. – Route 22 Sports Bar, Inc. and Crazy Mexican Restaurant & Grill, LLC, two restaurants in Weirton, W.V., will pay $217,500 and provide significant equitable relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation suit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the male spouse of an owner of the two restaurants, who, the EEOC alleged, possessed broad authority over the businesses and their employees, subjected a

BLUEFIELD, W.V. – Professional Transportation, Inc. (PTI), a transportation company headquartered in Evansville, Ind., with operations throughout the United States, will pay $60,000 to an individual job applicant who was denied part-time employment and furnish significant non-monetary 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 lawsuit, in February 2019 a job applicant recovering from opioid addiction sought a

Pittsburgh – Moore & Morford, Inc., a steel-fabrication company in South Greensburg, Pa., will pay $80,000 to settle a sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Moore & Morford employees subjected a female welder to a hostile work environment because of her sex. The EEOC charged that male employees repeatedly called the female welder various offensive, sex-based epithets