On Thursday, Nov. 4, the Birmingham District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public event to commemorate the agency's 45th anniversary and to discuss the status of its ongoing efforts to eradicate workplace discrimination.

Uno de los productores más grandes de manzana en los Estados Unidos ha sido prohibido intervenir con trabajadores involucrados en una demanda federal traído por La Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidad en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC), la agencia anunció hoy. Citando la "probabilidad de daño irreparable" a empleados que trabajaron y todavía trabajan para la compañía Evans Fruit basada en el Oriente de Washington, el Juez Principal del Distrito Oriental de la Corte del Distrito Federal en Yakima ordenó el mandato judicial preliminar en contra de la compañía y el mayordomo del rancho previo, Juan Marin, y los responsabilizo por un "ambiente de intimidación."

One of the largest apple producers in the United States has been enjoined from interfering with workers involved in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Citing the "likelihood of irreparable harm" to current and former employees of Eastern Washington-based Evans Fruit Company, the chief judge of Eastern District of the federal district court in Yakima ordered a preliminary injunction against the company and its former general manager, Juan Marin, and held them accountable for an "environment of intimidation."

The Maxwell House Coffee Division of Kraft Foods Global, Inc., violated federal law when it subjected a female employee at its Jacksonville, Fla., coffee plant to discriminatory terms and conditions and discipline and terminated her on the basis of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

I was deeply saddened on Tuesday to learn of the passing of my law school classmate and former EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller. Commissioner Miller was first nominated by President Clinton in May 1994 and served the EEOC -- and ultimately, the nation -- with great distinction until 2004.

A San Joaquin/Stanislaus County, Calif., auto repair company violated federal law when it allowed its Oakdale shop manager to harass an employee due to her Mexican national origin and her gender and then fired her for reporting the discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Un taller mecánico en los Condados de San Joaquin y Stanislaus, California, violó las leyes federales al permitir que el jefe del taller hostigara a una trabajadora por ser de origen mexicano y por ser mujer y luego la despidió por haber reportado la discriminación, de acuerdo a una demanda introducida hoy por la Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidad en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos (EEOC.)

McDonald's will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged that McDonald's USA, LLC unlawfully subjected an employee to sexual harassment at one of its Perth Amboy, N.J., restaurants.

A vacation home rental management company in Yosemite National Park will pay $165,000 and furnish injunctive relief to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a public Commission meeting today to hear testimony from representatives of various stakeholder groups as well as social scientists and the Federal Trade Commission on the growing use of credit histories as selection criteria in employment.