An upstate New York restaurant violated federal law by widespread and continuing sexual harassment of its female employees, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed on August 31.

The EEOC Training Institute and the Washington Field Office (WFO) of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold two Equal Employment Opportunity seminars on Monday, September 12, 2011.  They will be held at the Center for Association Leadership Eye Street Conference Center, 1575 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 (ASAE).

Villa Enterprises Management, Ltd, Inc., doing business as Villa Galleria, violated federal law by allowing the sexual harassment of a server and cashier at its Villa Galleria restaurant at the Galleria Shopping Mall in St. Louis and retaliating against her for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

Food Management Investors, Inc. (FMI) and Apple Core Enterprises, Inc., Minot, N.D.-based companies, have agreed to resolve a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) relating to practices at their Bismarck, N.D. Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, the agency announced today.  Applebee's violated federal civil rights laws by permitting a former store general manager to create a pattern and practice of sexual harassment and retaliation against employees, the EEOC charged in a lawsuit filled in June 2010. (EEOC v. Apple Core Enterprises, Inc. & Food Management Investors, Inc. d/b/a Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, .No. 1:10-cv-00048 (DLH/CSM)).  The EEOC filed its suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary, out-of-court settlement through its conciliation process.

AA Enterprises, Inc., which operates a chain of gas stations in Saipan, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls, Inc., formerly Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., and Chesapeake-based Quality Coatings of Virginia, Inc., violated federal law by firing two employees for opposing sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.  Huntington Ingalls, a contractor for the U.S. government, employs over 15,000 people.  Quality Coatings, a contractor for Huntington Ingalls, performed cleaning and painting on the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush while it was at the Norfolk Naval Operations Base in Norfolk, Va.

A Washington, D.C.-based security services company, DTM Corporation, violated federal law by subjecting employees to pregnancy discrimination and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.  DTM is a government contractor doing business for the U.S. Department of Defense at Fort Washington, Md., and has an office in Silver Spring, Md.

In its first lawsuit filed against the government of American Samoa, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it filed a lawsuit charging that the government discriminated against a class of older workers due to their age.

Oakland-based Crime Scene Cleaners, a trauma scene cleaning company specializing in homicide, suicide and accidental death scene cleanup operations, violated federal law by refusing to hire a qualified female applicant because of her gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Rugo Stone, LLC, a Fairfax County, Virginia-based stone contracting company that has worked on a variety of high-profile buildings in Washington, D.C., violated federal law by subjecting a male employee to harassment based on his national origin, religion and color, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.