Peters' Bakery, a family-owned business in East San Jose, violated federal law when the principal owner verbally abused an employee using ethnic and racial slurs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.  Additionally, the EEOC said Peters' Bakery retaliated against the employee by suing her in small claims court for defamation after she filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC.

The Food Farmacy, Ltd. and J&T Enterprises, LLC, doing business as Foodworks, a chain of grocery stores in Connecticut, violated federal law when they asked applicants disability-related questions and fired an employee from their store in Monroe, Conn., because of the employee's epilepsy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Catastrophe Management Solutions, a Mobile catastrophic insurance claims company, violated federal law by discriminating against a black applicant for employment because she wore dreadlocks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

An electric utility company headquartered in Atlanta unlawfully discriminated against a class of employees and applicants because of their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today in Atlanta.

Farmers Insurance Exchange violated federal law when it fired two Southeast Asian-American employees due to their race, and then unlawfully fired a third non-Asian employee in retaliation for his participation in the EEOC's investigation, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. 

A California-based private employment and recruiting agency, Industrial Labor Management Group, Inc. (ILM), violated federal law by refusing to refer or place qualified female applicants for employment because of their gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

GMRI, Inc., doing business as Red Lobster, subjected a class of female employees to pervasive sexual harassment at its Salisbury, Md., location in violation of federal law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

A large Annapolis, Md.-based internal medicine practice violated federal law when it fired a receptionist because of her pregnancy and in retaliation for her complaints about pregnancy discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

The Abatti Group and its subsidiaries, a provider of seed and fertilizer, violated federal law by engaging in discrimination based on both disability and genetic information, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. 

Mesa Systems, Inc., una compañía de mudanza y almacenamiento que opera en seis estados, con sede en Denver-Grand Junction, Colorado, acordó en pagar $450,000 y proporcionar otros alivios requeridos por el decreto de consentimiento de la corte para resolver una demanda de discriminación a base de lugar de origen, dijo la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE.UU. (EEOC) hoy. Esta es la resolución más grande de discriminación obtenida por la oficina de la EEOC en Utah.