CLEVELAND – Bennett Enterprises Inc., doing business as Ralphie’s Sports Eatery Company, will pay $125,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a biracial woman with a diagnosis of depression and anxiety worked for Bennett Enterprises as a server at its Ralphie’s Sports Eatery location in Kenton, Ohio. The former

WEST FARGO, N.D. – Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Mail Hauler Trucking fired an employee because of his disability and/or because the company regarded him as disabled. The employee has a physical

BUFFALO, NY – New York Beer Project, LLC, will pay $225,000 to two former bartenders 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 lawsuit, New York Beer Project refused to let two bartenders return to work after it was notified of their medical conditions. One bartender shared his cancer diagnosis and was left off the schedule for months before

CHICAGO – The Timken Company, a manufacturer of rod end and spherical bearings, has agreed to pay $55,000 and provide other 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According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Timken rescinded a job offer to a qualified applicant, an engineer with decades of manufacturing experience, because he is hard of hearing. The company and one of its

CHICAGO – Greif, Inc., an international manufacturing company, and American Flange, its wholly owned subsidiary operating in the western suburbs of Chicago, will pay $40,000 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 suit, the EEOC alleged that American Flange and Greif fired an employee with two absences that were sparked by a seizure disorder, even though

CHICAGO – Alliance Ground International, Inc. (AGI), a Miami-based air cargo and logistics company, will pay $70,000 and provide additional 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 EEOC’s lawsuit, AGI refused to hire a qualified deaf applicant because of his disability and failed to consider any reasonable workplace accommodations. The applicant, who sought a mail agent position at

DALLAS — The Results Companies, LLC, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based business services outsourcing firm, agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, The Results Companies hired an employee who is blind as a telephonic customer service representative to work from its call center in Wichita Falls, Texas. After accepting the position, the employee requested to

ATLANTA – The Kroger Co., a food and drug retailer, violated federal law when an Atlanta Kroger store discriminated against an employee because of her disability and then retaliated against her for complaining about the discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee is a breast cancer survivor whose cancer treatments caused permanent nerve damage to her lower extremities. The Kroger

ATLANTA – C.W. Inc. (doing business as CPG Staffing) and Executive Personnel Group, LLC, sister staffing companies that assign employees to construction industry clients, agreed to pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC suit alleged that CPG Staffing and Executive Personnel rescinded a welding applicant’s job offer after learning from a post-offer medical questionnaire that he had

ATLANTA – Reliable Maintenance Solutions, Inc., which provides quarry services for mine sites in Georgia, will pay $25,000 and undertake remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that, in March 2021, Reliable refused to hire an experienced applicant for a heavy equipment operation position because of his disability. The applicant is a right-arm amputee with years of