MINNEAPOLIS — The Mayo Clinic, which operates hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, violated federal law when it refused to grant a security guard’s request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, and instead threatened to fire the employee, effectively forcing him to receive the vaccine and violate his conscience and religious beliefs to save his job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According

DETROIT – The Phoenix Center, a mental health and substance abuse recovery center headquartered in Ironton, Ohio, will pay $65,610 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Center.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on or around Aug. 25, 2021, a woman applied for a case manager position at one of The Phoenix Center’s four Ohio facilities but was rejected a month later because of her chronic

NEW YORK – KTG Hospitality, LLC, doing business as Wall Street Grill, a fine dining restaurant in Manhattan, will pay $45,000 to one former employee settling a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, kitchen workers and managers at Wall Street Grill subjected a pastry cook to sexual overtures, verbal abuse, and unwanted physical contact. The suit also alleged that Wall Street Grill’s managers witnessed

WASHINGTON – Security Assurance Management, Inc. (SAM), a security firm operating in the Washington area, violated federal law when it removed a special police officer from her assignment because its client did not want her working at its jobsite while pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed Jan. 21.

According to the lawsuit, SAM failed to provide the employee with both breaks for pumping breast milk and an appropriate

ST. LOUIS – Dolgencorp, LLC, which operates Dollar General stores nationwide, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee with disabilities, forced her to quit when she called in sick, and retaliated against her for reporting the conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, the manager at Dollar General’s Olustee, Oklahoma, location told the employee, who suffers from panic attacks, that the

NORFOLK, Va. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has successfully recovered money owed to a victim of discrimination from Value Unlimited, Inc., doing business as ChowCall, a food delivery service in Norfolk, Virginia, and secured the company’s compliance with terms of the conciliation agreement with the EEOC.

According to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC, Value Unlimited failed to fully comply with its obligations under a September 2022 conciliation agreement resolving allegations of

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – DHL Supply Chain (USA), a leading supply chain logistics services provider in the United States, violated federal law when supervisors and managers at its Memphis site ignored complaints of sexual harassment and discouraged female associates from complaining about the abuse, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, a permanent female employee charged that while working for DHL she complained to three supervisors

PHILADELPHIA – AccentCare, Inc., a Texas home healthcare services company with an office in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, will pay $26,000 to settle an equal pay and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, female licensed practical nurses working out of AccentCare’s Pottsville, Pennsylvania, location were paid less than a male colleague, despite their superior qualifications. After one of the women repeatedly complained about the gender-based pay disparity

INDIANAPOLIS – Bossman Tacos, LLC, doing business as Boss Man Tacos, violated federal law at its Highland, Indiana restaurant by subjecting female employees to a hostile work environment because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least November 2021, Boss Man Tacos knew its head chef and other male cooks were sexually harassing its female servers, some of whom

DETROIT— East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers, violated federal law when it subjected female production employees to sexual harassment before taking untimely remedial action, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, female employees at East Jordan Plastic’s Beaverton, Michigan location were sexually harassed by a male co-worker. The harassing conduct included sexually explicit comments and inappropriate touching. Because East Jordan