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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Walmart Stores East, LP will pay $410,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com¬mis¬sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from 2014 to 2018 a male employee of Walmart’s store in Geneva, N.Y., regularly made unwelcome sexual comments and advances to female co-workers and touched female co-workers without their consent. The EEOC alleged that Walmart management

DENVER – JBS USA LLC, doing business as JBS Swift & Company, will pay up to $5.5 million and provide other relief to end a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging race, national origin, and religious discrimination at the company’s beef processing plant in Greeley, Colo., the EEOC announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in 2010, charged that JBS discriminated against employees because they were Muslim, immigrants from Somalia

DALLAS — At least three teen female carhops were subjected to sex harassment by SDI of Mineola, LLC, doing business as Sonic Drive-In, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a Sonic co-manager subjected several young female employees to a hostile work environment. The offending co-manager made daily crude sexual comments and sexual propositions to female employees and subjected them to unwelcome physical touching

LOUISVILLE – Total Maintenance Solutions, Inc., a Cincinnati-area company that specializes in commercial cleaning and construction clean-up, will pay $22,500 to a former female employee and implement other relief to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC lawsuit, Total Maintenance Solutions, through its male owner, forced the employee to endure sexual harassment, including unwanted touching, sexual comments, overtures and

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham Beverage Company, Inc. doing business as AlaBev, a Birmingham-based wholesale distributor and importer of beer, cider, alcohol-free drinks and specialty foods, will pay $825,000 and furnish 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’s lawsuit, filed Sept. 26, 2017, charged the company with violating federal law when it failed to promote or consider Ronnie Johnson

NEW YORK – Stardust Diners, Inc., a restaurant that has operated for decades in East Meadow, Nassau County, N.Y., under the name Colony Diner, violated federal law by subjecting its female employees to harassment on the basis of sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the Colony Diner’s owners and other male employees created, encouraged and tolerated a work environment in which female

PLANO, Texas — An African American auto salesman was subjected to harassment because of his race and color by AOD Ventures, Inc., doing business as Autos of Dallas, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.       

Autos of Dallas is a Plano-based retailer of luxury vehicles. Car salesman Jonathon Sellers, who is Black, attended a December 2019 holiday party in which management called him to the front of the

NEW ORLEANS – American River Transportation Company (ARTCO), headquartered in Decatur, Ill., will pay a former employee $40,000 to resolve a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. ARTCO provides river transportation services, including barges and a shipyard, to its parent company, Archer Daniels Midland, and to third-party clients.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in 2019, a Black deckhand was subjected to racial harassment

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today posted updated and expanded technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing questions arising under the federal equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws. The EEOC also posted a new resource for job applicants and employees, explaining how federal employment discrimination laws protect workers during the pandemic. These publications are provided to help employees and employers understand their rights and responsibilities at work during the pandemic.

The

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has unanimously approved a resolution condemning the recent violence, harassment, and acts of bias against Jewish individuals in the United States, the agency announced today. The resolution reaffirms the Commission’s commitment to combat all forms of harassment and discrimination against members of the Jewish community, and to ensure equal opportunity, inclusion, and dignity for all in the workplace.

“Hatred, bigotry, and antisemitism violate our nation’s core

LOS ANGELES – Ryder Integrated Logistics, Inc., a Miami-based transportation and supply chain solutions company, and Orange County-based staffing agency Kimco Staffing Services, Inc. will pay $1 million each, for a total of $2 million, and provide significant injunctive relief to resolve the lawsuit alleging that the companies violated federal law by subjecting African American employees to racial discrimination, harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
 
According to the

DENVER – Joyvida, LLC, which operates under the name Amada Senior Care and provides personal care services in the Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo areas, will pay $250,000 and commit to significant changes in its business practices to end a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC filed a complaint against the company in federal district court in Colorado in 2018

MIAMI – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with enforcing laws against employment discrimination and harassment, announced today that it is hosting a free virtual event on May 20.

“Civility for All: Navigating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Asian American Community” is open to the public. Capacity is limited.

EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows will be the keynote speaker and will address the Commission’s recent resolution condemning the violence

PHILADELPHIA — Pinnacle Logistics, a trucking and aviation services company in Allentown, Pa., will pay $45,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to conciliate a sexual harassment charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

Following an investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that Pinnacle Logistics failed to stop the sex-based harassment of a worker and that the harassment was so intolerable that she was forced to quit

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Modern Polymers, Inc., a North Carolina corporation that operates a single polymer molding facility in Cherryville, N.C., violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s complaint, Christin Smith began working for Modern Polymers as a Quality Technician in March 2018.  During her employment, Smith was subjected to severe

LOS ANGELES -- San Francisco-based Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company will pay $725,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

Hathaway served as the general contractor for the University of Southern California’s Village Construction Project. The EEOC charged that under the supervision of the general contractor, Black and Hispanic workers were exposed to racially offensive remarks and graffiti. According

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – USAble Life (USAL), an insurance company based in Florida and Little Rock, will pay $90,000 to settle a retaliation discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, USAL first received notice around March 26, 2018 of the complaints of an employee in its Little Rock office to a third party that the company was discriminating against her based on

MIAMI – Food Ventures North America, Inc., doing business as Wild Fork Foods, a member of the JBS USA family of companies, has agreed to pay $130,000 to settle a national origin and race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Wild Fork Foods violated federal law when a Hispanic female employee in its Miami corporate office was subjected to

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on civil rights in the workplace at its first all-virtual Commission hearing today.

“Today’s testimony makes clear that, while the pandemic continues to have serious impacts on public health and our economy, it has also created a civil rights crisis for many of America’s workers,” said EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “All of us have a critical role to

SAIPAN, CNMI — Saipan-based Imperial Pacific will pay $105,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. Imperial Pacific International, LLC, doing business as Best Sunshine International, was operating the Best Sunshine Casino on Saipan, where the alleged violations occurred. Imperial Pacific is a based subsidiary corporation primarily involved in the casino, entertainment and hotel/resort

ST. LOUIS – A small chain of Nebraska restaurants will pay $85,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC alleged El Vallarta violated federal discrimination law by allowing a manager and other workers at its Gretna, Neb., location to sexually harass a teenage female employee.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the male manager grabbed the young

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has sued C and C Power Line, Inc. for racial discrimination, harassment and retaliatory termination.  Jacksonville-based C and C is a full-service, nationwide electrical contractor servicing investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, government agencies and privately-owned companies.

The EEOC’s complaint alleges that C and C’s workplace was permeated with racial slurs and harassment. Specifically, it alleges that C and C supervisors and employees

ATLANTA – Peachstate Health Management, LLC, doing business as AEON Global Health, a Georgia certified reference clinical laboratory in Gainesville, Ga., violated federal law by subjecting an African American female client services employee to a race- and sex-based hostile work environment and firing her for complaining about it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a supervisor subjected one of its Black female

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque-AMG Specialty Hospital, LLC and Acadiana Management Group, LLC, operating AMG Specialty Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., violated federal law by subjecting a former female director of case management, Moriah Smith, to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC further alleges that AMG’s failure to remedy the hostile work environment of this employee ultimately resulted in forcing her to leave