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9-15-09

EEOC Charges Temporary Agency Failed to Protect Women From Abuse at Pittsburgh Plastics

PITTSBURGH -- A global Fortune 500 staffing company failed to take appropriate action when its employees complained about egregious sexual harassment at a plastic manufacturing plant to which they had been assigned, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC's suit, Adecco USA assigned

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9-15-09

Flooring Company Paid Blacks and Hispanics Less Than White Employees, Federal Agency Charges

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Carolina Marble & Tile Co., a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based flooring company, discriminated against blacks and Hispanics by paying them less than their white counterparts, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Carolina Marble & Tile discriminated against James E

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9-15-04

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62nd Mediation Partnership Between Federal Agency and Corporate America

WASHINGTON – Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and John Tyson, Chairman and

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9-15-04

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will vote this Friday, September 17, in a public meeting on the authorization of funds for a contract award that would establish a pilot National Contact Center to handle unsolicited calls for general information. The meeting will take place at EEOC Headquarters, 1801 L Street, NW, Washington, D.C., at 10:00 a.m. EEOC staff who have worked on

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9-14-99

WASHINGTON -- Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), met today with a delegation of Congress led by Representative Bernard Sanders of Vermont to discuss concerns that employer conversions to cash-balance pensions plans may violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA).

"EEOC will continue to assess the difficult questions that surround this issue and how they are affected

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9-14-09

Federal Agency Charges Company Made Medical Inquires and Conducted Medical Exams Prohibited by the ADA

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Michigan-based automotive parts company violated federal law when it conducted blanket drug tests of all of its production employees at its Lawrenceburg, Tenn., manufacturing facility, including testing for lawfully prescribed drugs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the

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9-14-09

Federal Agency Charged Hotel Fired Employee for Refusing to Work on Her Sabbath

MEMPHIS – Generation Properties II, LLC, doing business as Staybridge Suites, a Research Triangle Park, N.C., based hotel chain, will pay $27,500 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 2:08-cv-02420, filed in U.S. District Court

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9-14-09

Department Manager Subjected Women to Egregious Sexual Harassment, Agency Charges

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland supermarket chain Dave’s Supermarket violated federal law by subjecting female employees to a workplace environment permeated with sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit (Case No. 1:09cv2119), filed in U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division

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9-14-09

Japanese Supermarket Paid Hispanics Less Than Asians, Federal Agency Charges

NEWARK – A Japanese specialty supermarket in Edgewater, N.J., discriminated against Hispanic employees by paying them less than non-Hispanic workers, almost all of whom are Asian, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. Mitsuwa Marketplace specializes in selling Japanese food, beverages, desserts, groceries and other products.

In EEOC v

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9-14-09

EEOC Obtains $170,000 for Female Employees Harassed by Executive Director At the Center of Previous Lawsuit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA-AK) has agreed to provide $170,000 and other relief to settle a federal lawsuit charging that its executive director targeted four female employees for severe harassment because of their gender, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today