ATLANTA — The Kroger Co., a national grocery chain, will pay $75,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a breast cancer survivor whose cancer treatments caused permanent nerve damage to her lower extremities was hired as a cashier at the Kroger in Atlanta’s Edgewood retail district. Shortly thereafter, the

MOBILE, Ala. – Ground Zero Biloxi LLC, operator of the Ground Zero Blues Club, a music venue and restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi, will pay $35,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, one of the company’s co-owners sexually harassed an assistant manager through repeated sexual comments and unwelcome physical contact. The

ST. LOUIS — Washington University, a private research university in St. Louis, violated federal law when it fired an employee in retaliation for her opposition to race discrimination and filing a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency alleged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, the employee, who worked as a senior program manager at Washington University’s Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, complained to both the

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Healthcare Management, Inc. (THM), a provider of administrative, purchasing, technology and human resources services to health care communities, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race, national origin, age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that THM refused to promote a highly qualified 58-year-old Asian American doctor and instead hired a younger

AUSTIN, Texas — Central Austin Motorcars, LLC, Hi Tech Motorcars, LLC, and Stadium Motorcars, LLC will pay $925,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, five managers at South Austin Nissan, a car dealership in Austin, subjected four female sales employees to a sexually hostile work environment including frequent sexual comments

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — TNT Chicken, Inc., operator of fried chicken fast food restaurants with the Slim Chickens brand, violated federal law when it subjected an employee at one of the company’s Sioux Falls locations to unlawful race and sex harassment and then retaliated against her for objecting to the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

Such conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of

JACKSON, Tenn. — Toyota Boshoku Jackson Tennessee, LLC and Toyota Boshoku America, Inc., in Erlanger, Kentucky, manufacturers of automotive interior systems and powertrain and filtration products, violated federal law by subjecting a class of female employees to a sexually hostile workplace where male workers groped and insulted female employees and some managers offered advancement for sexual favors, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, since

ATLANTA — Gravity Autos, a conglomerate of car dealerships with locations in Georgia, Florida and Illinois, violated federal law when it denied a reasonable religious accommodation to a sales employee and then fired him for opposing the unlawful denial, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee, who belongs to a Hebrew Israelite congregation, informed his manager when he was hired that he