FLORENCE, S.C. – Florence CK, LLC, a Comfort Keepers franchisee providing in-home caregiving in Florence, agreed to pay $324,200 and furnish other relief to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its charge investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that the company, which provides services across South Carolina, discriminated against a new employee attending orientation in November 2023, violating four different

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – iPRO Dental Laboratory, Inc., a Fort Lauderdale manufacturer of dental restoration products, will pay $30,000 to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that the company fired a newly hired employee in January 2023 after learning she was pregnant. The employee started work on a Monday, informed the company she was pregnant

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – BestBet Jacksonville, Inc., the largest poker room in Florida, violated federal law when it failed to offer reasonable accommodations to a class of pregnant employees and forced them to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, BestBet maintained a strict policy requiring employees to resign if they missed two weeks or more of work and do not otherwise qualify for leave

MOBILE, Ala. – Smoke BBQ, LLC, and Thorny Oyster, LLC, operators of Cosmos Restaurant in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, will pay significant monetary damages and provide other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Cosmos fired a female server in November 2023 the day after the company learned of her pregnancy. The worker had held her position

MADISON, Wis. – Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc., a grocery chain operating Pick ‘n Save and Metro Market stores, violated federal law when it fired an employee, who was also a nursing mother, for requesting an accommodation at her workstation to maintain her breast milk supply, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the suit, the cake decorator asked to keep a water bottle at her workstation to maintain

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed an action in federal court today to enforce a subpoena issued during its investigation into allegations against JamRock Solutions LLC.

JamRock Solutions is an Amazon delivery service partner based in Theordore, Alabama, and a charge received by the EEOC in April 2024 alleged violation of federal law by failing to accommodate an employee’s pregnancy-related limitations.

The charge alleged that a former driver at JamRock’s

WASHINGTON – Security Assurance Management, Inc. (SAM, Inc.), a security firm operating in the Washington, D.C. area, will pay $45,000 to settle a pregnancy and sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, SAM, Inc. removed a special police officer from her job assignment because its client did not want her reporting to the jobsite while pregnant. When the employee returned to

OKLAHOMA CITY – Urologic Specialists of Oklahoma, Inc., a medical practice that operates five clinics employing two dozen physicians in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri, will pay $90,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy and disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, in 2023, Urologic Specialists denied reasonable accommodations to a medical assistant at its Tulsa facility during the

CHICAGO – Hotel Equities Group, LLC, a full-service hotel management company providing management, development, and consulting services throughout the United States, violated federal law when it failed to provide pregnancy accommodations to one employee and religious accommodations to another, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2023, a pregnant front desk clerk at the company’s Hilton-branded hotel in Oak Lawn, Illinois requested the

LOS ANGELES – Feit Electric Inc., a lightbulb manufacturer based in Los Angeles, agreed to pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, workforce provider Eastridge Workforce Solutions assigned a female employee to work at Feit Electric at its Pico Rivera, California warehouse location, where she was subjected to sex discrimination when she