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WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin Corporation and Lockheed Martin Enterprise Operations have agreed to pay $115,000 and provide other relief to settle 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, Lockheed Martin subjected a former administrative assistant at its Crystal City, Va., facility to disability discrimination when it refused to grant reasonable accommoda­tions for her disability. The EEOC charged in its

CHICAGO – Stan Koch & Sons Trucking, Inc., a Minnesota-based transportation company, will pay $165,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Koch refused to rehire a former employee because she had filed an EEOC charge against Koch alleging that a strength test used by the company to screen truck drivers discriminates against women.

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DALLAS — Dell, Inc. violated federal law by paying lesser wages to a female IT analyst than it paid to a male employee performing work that required substantially equal skill, effort and responsi­bil­ity, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Kea Golden was an IT analyst with 24 years of work experi­ence in the technology industry. Dell acquired the company Golden worked for

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – USF Holland, LLC, a trucking company providing transportation and delivery services to customers throughout North America, violated federal law when it refused for decades to hire qualified females for truck driving positions because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

USF Holland operates over 50 terminals in the United States. The EEOC alleges the discrim­ination occurred at Holland’s Olive Branch, Miss., terminal.           

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Cincinnati-area restaurant group will pay $75,000 to a former employee and implement other relief to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC lawsuit, the male owner and chef of 3501 Seoul, LLC, SushiNati, LLC, and The Korea House, LLC subjected a female employee to unwelcome and offensive sexual harass­ment, including an offer of money in exchange for

JACKSON, Miss. – Jordan Carriers, Inc., an over-the-road transportation company head­quartered in Natchez, Miss., which hauls commodities throughout the eastern United States, violated federal law by refusing to hire an applicant because of a previous back injury, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an experienced truck driver applied for a flatbed truck driver position and was offered the position contingent upon completion

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Oceanic Time Warner Cable LLC and Charter Communications, Inc. (Oceanic) agree to pay $800,000 and provide other injunctive 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, Oceanic denied employees with disabilities reasonable accommodation as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), failed to engage in the interactive process, and instead fired them.

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RALEIGH, N.C. – Thompson Construction Group, Inc., a heavy industrial contractor based in Sumter, S.C., will pay $115,000 and provide other relief to settle a race dis­crimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC had charged that Thompson Construction Group violated federal law when it fired an African American employee because of his race. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee worked as a pipefitter

MILWAUKEE – The company that operates the IHG Army Hotel at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin will pay $60,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, PML Services, LLC, which does business as IHG Army Hotels on Fort McCoy, fired an employee with epilepsy after she experienced a seizure at home after work. The EEOC alleged that the

BALTIMORE – Las Vegas, Nev.-headquartered Golden Entertainment, Inc., trading as Rocky Gap Casino Resort in Flintstone, Md., violated federal law when it allowed a female bartender to be sexually harassed and then retaliated against her after she opposed the illegal conduct, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

According to the lawsuit, a male bartender at Rocky Gap Casino repeatedly made sexually offensive remarks to a female bartender

NEW YORK – American Glory Restaurant Corp. violated federal law by subjecting its employees to racial and sexual harassment and by retaliating against an employee who objected to the racial harassment he experienced, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. American Glory operates restaurant locations in Hudson and Tannersville, N.Y.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, American Glory’s owner and president repeatedly subjected Black employees to racist comments and slurs

DALLAS — Quest Diagnostics, a provider of medical diagnostic information services that aid in the diagnosis and detection of diseases, violated federal law when it refused to accommodate the religi­ous beliefs of a long-term employee and subsequently fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee, a phlebotomist, is a practicing Seventh-day Adventist who began working for Quest Diagnostics in 2008

SAN DIEGO – Ralphs Grocery Company, a national chain of retail grocery stores, has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged Ralphs with subjecting a female courtesy clerk to discrimination based on pregnancy while she was employed at a store in the Point Loma area of San Diego. The EEOC said the store denied

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A southern Indiana fast-food sandwich shop violated federal law by rejecting a hard-of-hearing applicant because of his hearing and resultant speech impairments according to a lawsuit filed on September 23, 2020 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Ranrae, Inc., which owns and operates Subway Store #1005 in Bloomington, Ind., refused to hire a qualified hearing- and speech-impaired applicant for an

ATLANTA – Gentiva Health Services, Inc. d/b/a Kindred at Home (“Kindred”), a provider of home health services, including nursing and rehabilitation assistance, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee in its purchasing department and instead placed her on involuntary unpaid leave because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Kindred learned that one of its employees suffered

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Frito-Lay, Inc., a Plano, Texas-based subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures and distributes snack foods, violated federal law when it fired a newly promoted route sales representative because he could not train for the position on Saturdays due to his religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a West Palm Beach Frito-Lay warehouse employee applied for and received

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Performance of Brentwood, L.P., doing business as Lexus of Cool Springs, an automobile dealership, violated federal law when it subjected a female service consultant to different terms and conditions of employment than similarly situated male co-workers and then fired her because of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Performance of Brentwood, L.P.owns and operates two Lexus car dealerships in the greater Nashville area

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Kroger Company, doing business as Kroger Store No. 625 in Conway, Ark., violated federal law when it fired two employees who asked for a religious accommodation to avoid wearing an emblem they believed contradicted their religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.         

According to the EEOC’s suit, the Conway Kroger implemented a new dress code, which included an apron depicting a

ORLANDO, Fla. – Rural/Metro Corporation of Florida, doing business as American Medical Response (AMR), a Florida company that provides emergency and non-emergency medical transport in the Orlando area, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee with a pregnancy-related disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee worked for AMR as an emergency medical technician when she was pregnant. When the

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Tennessee-based Wellpath, LLC, a provider of health services in correctional facilities, violated federal law when it refused to accommodate the religious beliefs of a nurse, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a nurse who is a practicing Apostolic Pentecostal Christian was hired by Wellpath to work in the GEO Central Texas Correctional Facility in downtown San Antonio. Before

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Marelli Tennessee USA, LLC, doing business as Marelli, an inter­national exterior lighting manufacturer for the automotive industry, will pay $335,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, a male assembly line supervisor sexually harassed multiple women while employed at the Pulaski, Tenn., plant. The EEOC alleged the women reported the