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9-30-09

Staffing Company Terminated Women Because of Pregnancy, Federal Agency Says

BALTIMORE – CTI Global Solutions Inc., a staffing agency headquartered in Largo, Md., violated federal law when it terminated a group of employees because of their pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

"More than 30 years after the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the EEOC has seen

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9-30-09

Staffing Companies Refused to Hire Applicant with Back Impairment, EEOC Says

BALTIMORE – Two staffing agencies with headquarters in Georgia, Axiom Staffing Group, Inc., and Axiom Staffing Group of Virginia, Inc., engaged in disability discrimination at their Hagerstown, Md., facility when they refused to hire an applicant because of her back impairment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a lawsuit today.

The EEOC

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9-30-09

Owner Regularly Engaged in Sexually Inappropriate and Unwelcome Conduct Toward Female Employees, Federal Agency Charges

HOUSTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a class lawsuit today against Finch Air Conditioning of La Porte, Texas, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. In the suit (Civil Action No. 4:09-cv-03156), the EEOC alleged that certain female employees at this family-owned

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9-30-09

Agency Charges Latino Janitors Harassed, Scrutinized and Terminated

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit today against New York City-based janitorial services giant ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM), charging that supervisors at the company discriminated against Latino janitors working at several commercial buildings in downtown San Francisco, and retaliated against some of these employees after they filed charges with the EEOC.

EEOC’s

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9-30-09

EEOC Charges U.S. Security Associates, Inc. with Unlawfully Discriminating Against Expecting Mother and Coworker Husband

ATLANTA – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Roswell, Ga.- based U.S. Security Associates, Inc., one of the nation’s biggest national security guard companies, for violating federal law when a manager subjected a female security guard to pregnancy discrimination and then terminated

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9-30-09

Investment Management Giant Refused to Hire Black Applicant as Financial Planning Manager, Federal Agency Charges

PHILADELPHIA – Malvern, Pa.- based Vanguard Group, Inc., one of the world's largest investment management companies, violated federal law when it refused to hire an African American applicant because of her race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Barbara Alexander

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9-30-09

Better Qualified Former Employee Denied Jobs Because of Pregnancy, EEOC Charges

MIAMI – Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC, a division of Hilton Hotels Corporation, violated federal law when it refused to hire a former employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, EEOC v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, L.L.C.

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9-30-09

White Laborers Harassed by Hispanics on the Job, Federal Agency Charged

DALLAS – Total Electric and Supply Company, doing business as TESSCO, will pay $125,000 to three former employees to settle a racial and national origin harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. TESSCO is an energy and utility services company headquartered in Midland, Texas.

According to the

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9-30-09

Document Services Company Failed to Stop Sex-Based Harassment, Federal Agency Charges

YORK, Pa.- A leading national document services provider based in Dayton, Ohio failed to take appropriate action to stop the sex-based harassment of a female employee at its facility in York, Pa., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Penny Zink, of York

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9-30-09

Black Production Manager Subjected to Racial Epithets, EEOC Charges

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Harrisburg-based Stroehmann Bakeries LLC, a subsidiary of Bimbo Bakeries USA, violated federal law when it subjected a production operator to a racially hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC says that Henry Hairston, an African American production operator, was subjected to a hostile