Cactus Grill, Inc., violated federal law when it allowed a manager to sexually harass an 18-year-old server at its restaurant in Leawood, Kan., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Jack Marshall Foods, Inc., doing business as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Inc., a Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based company, will pay a group of about 19 female employees, including at least three who were teenagers at the time they were employed there, $1,052,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a lawsuit brought by the federal agency charging sexual harassment.

Debra M. Lawrence, a veteran trial attorney with the Baltimore office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has been appointed regional attorney of the agency's Philadelphia District, which includes offices in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cleveland, the agency announced today.

Perdue Farms, Inc. will pay $25,500 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged in its lawsuit that Perdue Farms violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by refusing to hire a woman for a position because of her age.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that Everdry Marketing and Management has paid $471,096 in damages, plus $86,581 in post-judgment interest, to 13 victims of sexual harassment.  The payout satisfies a judgment obtained by EEOC against Everdry in October 2006 following a four-week trial in Rochester, N.Y. (case # 01-CV-6329).  The individual payouts range from about $24,000 to $56,000, including the interest, which covers the time the women had to wait to receive their jury awards.  Everdry was required to pay the substantial interest after the ultimate resolution of the case was delayed by an appeal Everdry filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit challenging various aspects of the jury's verdict and other district court rulings.  The Court of Appeals affirmed the jury's verdict and award of damages.

Poplar Springs Nursing Center, LLC, a Meridian, Miss., nursing home, will pay $40,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age and race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

Allegiance Industries, Inc., a cleaning service with work sites throughout the Atlanta area, 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.

In a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Dreamz ATL, a large nightclub in Atlanta, violated federal law when its manager fired a waitress after learning that she was pregnant.

Federal District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly has ordered that Bolingbrook, Ill.-based Quantum Foods, LLC must provide information and documents regarding its hiring and recruiting practices and procedures at its suburban Chicago facility in response to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) administrative subpoena, the agency announced today.

The Selden Fire District Selden in Suffolk County, Long Island, will pay $263,360 to settle a class age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The damages will be made in retroactive payments to a group of 23 firefighters who had been discriminated against based on their age and provide increased monthly pension amounts going forward to several firefighters.