BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sealy Management Company, Inc., a property sale, rental, and manage­ment company headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., which owns and manages apartments in Alabama and three other states, violated federal law when it created a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against a female assistant manager who complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commi­ssion (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the assistant manager learned that her supervisor and

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Multi-South Management Services, LLC, a Memphis-based property management company, has agreed to pay $42,500 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle an EEOC lawsuit alleging it failed to accommodate and then fired a pregnant employee with medical complications, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee, the community director of a large apartment complex in Montgomery, Alabama, began having medical complications that made her high-risk for preterm labor

JACKSON, Ms. – Faurecia Madison Automobile Seating, Inc., a manufacturer of automobile seat frames in Madison, Mississippi, has agreed to pay $825,000 and furnish significant equitable relief    to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Faurecia screened its predecessor, Johnson Controls’ former employees and failed to hire 15 of them basing their hiring decisions on the number of sick or FMLA days they