MINNEAPOLIS – R & G Endeavors, Inc., a fast-food franchisee doing business as Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, violated federal law when it subjected employees to a hostile work environment based on race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in two lawsuits filed today. The litigation also charges the Minnesota company with denying a long-serving employee with a disability equal pay and pay raises because of his disability

WASHINGTON –The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the selection of Selma Cowan as the federal agency’s deputy chief financial officer.

“The EEOC is fortunate to have Selma Cowan in this crucial role,” said Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “Her extensive background in financial management, along with her formidable government expertise and strong commitment to the EEOC’s mission, make her ideally suited to this role.”

Selma Cowan said, “I firmly believe that equal

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its subsidiary, BBH SBMC, LLC, doing business as Shelby Baptist Medical Center, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with medical restrictions and then firing her in retaliation for requesting that accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, a psychiatric technician at Tenet’s Alabaster, Alabama Shelby Baptist Medical Center

WASHINGTON – Registration for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 26th Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference is now open at: https://excel2023.vfairs.com/

EXCEL 2023 will be in-person and will run July 30-Aug. 2 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington. The theme for this year’s conference, “Marking Milestones: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” commemorates significant anniversaries in 2023, such as the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the passage of the 1963

TACOMA, Wash. — Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington has agreed to pay $140,000 to an African American employee at its Tacoma Medical Center and provide other relief to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Kaiser permitted an African American employee to be harassed by her coworker’s repeated use of a version of the n-word, even after

WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a number of updates to its COVID-19 technical assistance, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws,” including adding a new question and answer about the end of the federal declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“This installment is the capstone to our comprehensive resource of questions and answers on COVID-19 and the

HONOLULU – A Honolulu restaurant and its outsourced human resources company violated federal law by subjecting male employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

The EEOC charged that since 2018, a co-owner of the restaurant Square Barrels sexually harassed male employees by exposing his genitals in the workplace and making repeated sexual comments related to the male employees’ sexual orientation. Square Barrels and its

NEW YORK – Conduent State and Local Solutions, Inc., a business services provider that operates the New York E-ZPass toll collection system, and Broadleaf Results, Inc., an employment agency, will collectively pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employee was placed by Broadleaf to work as a customer service representative at

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Suncakes, LLC, a Texas-based company doing business as IHOP, violated federal law when it required an employee to work on Sundays despite a previously granted religious accommodation, and then fired him when he attempted to exercise his federally protected rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. 

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Suncakes hired a cook at its Woodlawn Road location in Charlotte in January 2021

ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and crafts retailer, will pay $50,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Hobby Lobby violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to allow a part-time clerk at its Olathe, Kansas store to use her service dog on the job as a reasonable accommodation