The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 20, at 9:50 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the open session of the meeting will be open to public observation of the Commission's deliberations and voting.  The meeting will address the development of the agency's Quality Control Plan (QCP) for investigations and conciliations.  For scheduling purposes, the meeting is anticipated to conclude at 4:00 p.m, with an hour break taken around 1:00 p.m. 

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a comprehensive report addressing major obstacles hindering equal opportunities for African Americans in the federal work force, in addition to highlighting stakeholder recommendations.  The report is available on EEOC's website at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/reports/aawg.cfm.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Day & Zimmerman NPS, a leading supplier of maintenance, labor, and construction services to the power industry, yesterday filed a consent decree resolving EEOC's claims that Day & Zimmerman violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment for an African-American laborer.  In the lawsuit, EEOC alleged that Day & Zimmerman, through its foreman at the Poletti Power Plant in Astoria, Queens, N.Y., had subjected Carlos Hughes to physical and verbal racial harassment.

Ramin Inc., the owner of a Comfort Inn & Suites in Taylor, Mich., will pay $27,500 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit (EEOC v. Ramin, Inc., 2012-cv-15015) filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

Stellar Management Group, Inc., doing business as QSI, a contract sanitations services company that provides sanitation services to meat processing facilities in middle Georgia, violated federal law when it fired a female supervisor because of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

La Oficina de Campo de la Comisión Para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE.UU. (EEOC) en Nueva Orleans firmará un Memorando de Entendimiento (MOU) con el Consulado de México en Nueva Orleans el 14 de marzo.

The New Orleans Field Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans on March 14.  The agreement establishes an ongoing collaborative relationship between these two entities to provide Mexican nationals with information, guidance, and access to resources on the prevention of discrimination in the workplace, regardless of documentation status.  Andrea García Guerra, consul of Mexico in New Orleans, and Keith T. Hill, director of EEOC's New Orleans Field Office, will sign the agreement.

Following on the heels of a legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a North Carolina federal court has awarded more than $243,000 and injunctive relief against A.C. Widenhouse, Inc., a Concord, N.C.-based trucking company, in a race harassment and retaliation case, the agency announced today.

Grand Central Partnership, Inc. will pay $135,000 and furnish other relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency said today.  The EEOC had charged that the not-for-profit developer of real estate, offices, and facilities around Grand Central Terminal in New York City unlawfully fired a black Rastafarian security officer for his 2010 complaints of threats of violence and racism and his participation in an EEOC lawsuit resolved in 2009.  

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the online posting of its 2013 Federal Training Course schedule, available at www.eeotraining.eeoc.gov