WASHINGTON – A leading global technology company with locations in twelve U.S. states specializing in electronics and computing products and services will pay $15 million and furnish other relief to resolve charges of religious and disability discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The charges were filed with the EEOC’s Phoenix District Office in December 2021. In its investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Lori’s Gift’s, Inc., a nationwide chain of hospital gift shops, will pay $600,000 and provide other 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, Lori’s Gifts engaged in companywide unlawful employment practices since at least 2018, including using unlawful screening criteria and preemployment inquiries, and refused to hire qualified individuals with disabilities based on

BALTIMORE – Smiths Detection, Inc., a leading manufacturer of threat detection equipment headquartered in Edgewood, Maryland, will pay $100,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the suit, in the fall of 2023, a manufacturing employee who suffered from complete hearing loss in her left ear asked for personal protective equipment to protect her residual

NEW YORK – Federal Express Corporation, doing business as FedEx Express, will pay $280,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In the lawsuit, the EEOC charged that in February 2023, FedEx failed to accommodate several dispatchers’ requests to continue working from home and demanded the dispatchers’ return to its downtown Manhattan office, effectively forcing at least one

ST. LOUIS – The Carlstar Group, LLC, a Franklin, Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty tires and wheels, will pay $300,000 and furnish other 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 suit, since at least January 2020, Carlstar denied opportunities to manufacturing employees in Tennessee and South Carolina when the company learned they were lawfully taking certain prescription medications

GREENSBORO, N.C. – PepsiCo Beverage Sales, LLC, a Delaware company operating a facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, agreed to pay $270,000 and work with an accessibility consultant to settle 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, PepsiCo hired a blind employee as a customer care advocate for its Winston-Salem call center in April 2022. The employee requested a reasonable

ATLANTA – Exel Inc., doing business as DHL Supply Chain (USA), an international logistics company, violated federal law and discriminated against an employee at its Forest Park, Georgia warehouses when it denied her a reasonable accommodation and then discharged her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Exel denied a reasonable accommodation to a disabled, former temporary employee who worked for Exel through a

RALEIGH, N.C. – Butterball, LLC, a food processing company based out of Garner, North Carolina and doing business in Mt. Olive, North Carolina, violated federal law when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee for treatment for breast cancer and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a long-term employee informed the company of her cancer diagnosis and

SANTA FE, N.M. – St. Vincent Hospital, a medical facility operating Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (CSV) in Santa Fe, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee with a disability and firing her because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in or around 2021, a long-term employee of CSV fractured her foot and tore tendons in her

HOUSTON – Kroger Texas L.P. – Houston Division, operator of Kroger grocery store #300 in Houston’s Clear Lake/NASA area, violated federal employment law when it failed to accommodate and then fired an employee because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed last week.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that a self-service checkout attendant suffering from neuropathy, who for three preceding years worked successfully using a walker