Sparks Steak House, an upscale restaurant in New York City, violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment for male employees, including physical and verbal sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

INDIANAPOLIS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Rock Concrete Construc­tion Corporation will pay $31,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit alleging that the company stopped providing work to one of its employees who filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Delta Family Health and Fitness Center for Children, Inc. in Hamburg, Ark., violated federal law by firing four employees who were involved in the filing of several discrimination complaints, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

DETROIT – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has settled its religious discrimination lawsuit against Health Care and Retirement Corporation of America (HCRCA), a national operator of rehabilitation care centers based in Toledo, Ohio. The EEOC had charged that HCRCA violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at its Canton, Mich., location by discharging former employee Gurmeet Dosanjh because of her Sikh religion.

DENVER – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Outback Steakhouse has agreed to pay $19 million and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a major class lawsuit alleging sex discrimination against thousands of women at hundreds of its corporately-owned restaurants nationwide.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a final court judgment of $1,073,261 against Whirlpool Corporation in a race and sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Carlota Freeman, an African American former employee at the company's LeVergne, Tenn.-based facility. The EEOC alleged in its lawsuit that the appliance manufacturing giant failed to protect Freeman from persistent harassment by a white male coworker, which ultimately resulted in her being physically assaulted by him.

SAN FRANCISCO — Jack in the Box franchisee Kobra Associates, Inc., which operates about 70 restaurants in Northern and Eastern California, violated federal law by allowing a manager at its Paradise, Calif., store to sexually harass female employees under his supervision, according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

MINNEAPOLIS – Judge Donovan W. Frank of the federal district court in Minneapolis late yesterday entered a consent decree resolving a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Mesaba Airlines. The decree provides for the distri­bution of $130,000 to five discrimination victims as well as injunctive relief.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.– The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of an egregious harassment case against Aaron Rents, Inc., doing business as Aaron Sales & Lease Ownership (Aaron), for significant remedial relief on behalf of a young female worker who was allegedly subjected to a sexually hostile workplace and assaulted by a store manager.

INDIANAPOLIS – RMG Communications, LLC, doing business as Bloom Marketing Group, a Bloomington, Ind., telemarketing firm, will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability and race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.