Company Fired Woman Who Complained About Sexual Assaults, Federal Agency Charges

PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Plastics Manufacturing, Inc. unlawfully subjected a class of women to egregious sexual harassment and fired an employee who opposed the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC's suit, Veronica Jalpa and a class of female workers were subjected to severe and pervasive sexual harassment by a company supervisor at Pittsburgh

BIRMINGHAM – Rexam Beverage Can Americas, Inc., the American division of the world's leading beverage can maker, will pay $30,000 and provide remedial relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC had charged that Delaware-based Rexam Beverage Can Company treated Jamie Garza, an electrician in Rexam's Birmingham, Ala., plant, differently because of his Hispanic race and

Airline Fired Arthritic Clerk for Walking Too Slowly, Federal Agency Charged

DETROIT -- A Memphis, Tenn., airline operating out of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport violated federal law by firing a flight operations clerk on the basis of her disability, left knee arthritis, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. 

According to the EEOC's suit (Case No. 2:09-CV-13300) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District

Auto Parts Company Unlawfully Fired Worker Because His Religion Forbids Saliva Test, Federal Agency Charged

GREENSBORO, N.C. – GKN Driveline North America, Inc., a Sanford, N.C.-based automotive components company, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee's religious beliefs and by firing him because of his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC's

Female Employees at Delray Beach Construction Companies Subjected to Sexual Advances and Tales of Sexual Exploits, EEOC Charged

MIAMI – Delray Beach-based engineering and construction companies Cobra Construction, Inc. and Cobra Pavers and Engineering, Inc. violated federal law when they sexually harassed female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Cobra's managers told female employees

EEOC Says Retail Giant Failed to Reasonably Accommodate Employee With Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal  Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a discrimination lawsuit  against national retailer Target Stores, Inc. for unlawfully denying a reasonable  accommodation to an employee with multiple disability-based impairments and  substantially reducing his work hours due to the medical conditions. The disabled worker could not effectively  communicate with others without the assistance of a job

Home Improvement Giant Subjected Young Workers to Physical and Verbal Abuse, Retaliation

SEATTLE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major settlement of a discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Inc. for $1.72 million and significant remedial relief on behalf of three employees in their twenties who were subjected to a pervasive sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against

Tennessee Trailer Builder Refuses to Hire Female Welders, EEOC Charges

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Parsons, Tenn., manufacturer of car hauler trailers violated federal law by refusing to hire women as welders, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. 

According to the EEOC's suit, Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-01179, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Jackson Division, alleges that Monroe Motors, Inc., doing business as

SEATTLE — Payday lending chain Cottonwood Financial, Ltd.,  which does business as The Cash Store, refused to accommodate a manager with  bipolar disorder at its store in Walla    Walla, Wash., and  unlawfully fired him due to his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC’s suit  (EEOC v. Cottonwood Financial, Ltd., CV-09-5073-EFS)  charged that the company refused to accommodate store manager Sean Reilly’s need

Federal Agency Says Latina Employee Forced to Quit to Escape Abusive Supervisor

PORTLAND, Ore. – Wilcox Farms, which operates dairy and egg production facilities in Oregon and Washington, will pay $260,000 and provide remedial relief to settle a federal sexual harassment and retaliation suit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. 

The EEOC's lawsuit charged that a male supervisor repeatedly grabbed, sought to forcibly undress and propositioned