OKLAHOMA CITY — Paycom Payroll, LLC, an Oklahoma software company specializing in payroll and human capital software, violated federal law when it failed to provide effective reasonable accommodations to an employee with a life‑threatening food allergy and fired her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit said that shortly after being hired, an employee with a severe allergy repeatedly suffered anaphylactic reactions from exposure to

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — Federal Express Corporation, formerly known as FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc., violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to blind employees at its Kernersville, North Carolina facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that Federal Express Corporation discriminated against four individual employees who worked as package handlers, and a class of employee package handlers, who are disabled because of

LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Salvation Army, headquartered in Virginia with a facility in Lynchburg, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee by denying her a reasonable accommodation to seek treatment for cancer and caused her to be separated from her employment, according to a lawsuit announced today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in October 2024, a case worker with Hodgkin’s lymphoma provided The Salvation Army

ATLANTA — Penney OpCo, LLC, doing business as JC Penney, a retail department store chain with more than 600 stores and distribution warehouses nationwide, will pay $99,000 and undertake remedial measures to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, a warehouse associate at the JC Penney logistics center in Forest Park, Georgia was diagnosed with breast cancer and requested time off

TAMPA, Fla. — Red Royal Electric, Inc., a provider of residential electric services to counties in western Florida, will pay $34,500 and implement significant policy and training reforms 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, in January 2025, Red Royal refused to hire an applicant with a neurodevelopmental disorder and failed to accommodate his request to provide

JACKSON, Miss. — Golding Barge Line, Inc., an inland towboat and barge company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, violated federal law when it rescinded a job offer for an individual who applied for work as a deckhand on the basis of disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company rescinded the offer because of the results of the applicant’s pre-employment color vision test. The

DETROIT — O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, doing business as O’Reilly Auto Parts, a national auto parts retailer operating more than 6,500 stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada, violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee at its Belleville, Michigan distribution center and fired him instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, O’Reilly hired an employee as

BOSTON – The Daly/Kenney Group, LLC and 15 related companies, owners and operators of Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, will pay $250,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit recently filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since approximately March 2013, the Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees had a policy which refused to provide reasonable accommodations to employees

CHICAGO — Alight Solutions, an employee benefits administrator headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee by denying him a reasonable accommodation for his diabetes, and then firing him because of the disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Alight Solutions refused the employee additional breaks during his shift to monitor blood sugar and to recover from diabetic