LOS ANGELES — Il Fornaio (America) LLC, an Italian restaurant chain with 15 locations in California and Nevada, will pay $3,000,000 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 female employees, the agency announced today.

According to the suit, supervisors and employees across Il Fornaio’s restaurant locations repeatedly subjected female employees, many of whom were teenagers

NEWARK, N.J. — Piscataway, New Jersey-based Novadoz Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $116,666 to settle a 2025 charge alleging it denied an assistant manager’s request to work remotely because of her race, her American national origin and her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

The EEOC’s charge investigation found reasonable cause that Novadoz approved Piscataway-based Indian employees to work remotely from India for personal reasons, but forced the American employee to take

ST. LOUIS — The City of O’Fallon, Illinois, which provides a variety of municipal services to its nearly 35,000 residents in St. Clair County, agreed to resolve a charge of sex discrimination and retaliation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation of the charge found reasonable cause to believe that the city subjected an employee to harassment when it failed to provide a sex-designated locker room

DENVER — Mile Hi Companies, a Denver-based distribution group for food and paper products primarily in the Rocky Mountains region, will pay $1,500,000 and provide other relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in September 2024, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Mile Hi Companies unlawfully denied employment opportunities to black, female and Afghan job applicants since 2015. The EEOC charged that

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Blue Bell Creameries, Inc., a Brenham, Texas-based frozen snack manufacturer and distributor with a production facility in Sylacauga, Alabama, unlawfully terminated a Jewish body shop technician soon after he requested a beard‑related religious accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Blue Bell fired the employee in March 2025, less than a month after he refused to shave his beard due

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced an agreement with the St. Louis Sheriff’s Office to resolve 13 charges of discrimination alleging race and age discrimination. The St. Louis Sheriff’s Office is responsible for the security of the courtrooms of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri and for serving court papers and eviction notices.

EEOC’s investigation of the charges found reasonable cause to believe that former Sheriff Alfred Montgomery systematically

WASHINGTON — Computer giant Apple Inc. will pay $150,000 and update its religious observance policy, among other reforms, to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Apple failed to accommodate a Reston, Virginia employee’s need to be off from Friday sundown through sundown on Saturday in observance of the Jewish Sabbath. Apple rejected the employee’s request because it

KENOSHA, Wis. — Car dealership Kenosha Nissan violated federal law when it retaliated against multiple employees for reporting racial harassment and fired one of them, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, Kenosha Nissan management threatened several black employees who reported racial harassment in 2024. After learning of the reports, a manager warned employees that if they contacted HR again, the manager would “make [their]