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NEW YORK – Pediatrics 2000, a Manhattan private medical practice serving children and teens, has agreed to pay $68,000 and take substantial non-monetary action to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Pediatrics 2000 was aware that its worker was a Jehovah’s Witness when she was hired and initially accommodated her request not to work on Wednesdays due to her

DETROIT – A Wauseon, Ohio knife manufacturer will pay $20,900 in back pay and non-economic damages and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC charged that Busse Combat Knife Company violated federal law by discharging a worker after he revealed a disability.  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the employee left work early when he experienced a

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based staffing firm OneSource Staffing, LLC reached a voluntary conciliation agreement to resolve two discrimination charges, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s investigation into two disability discrimination charges revealed that OneSource Staffing required, as a condition of employment, that workers execute a mandatory arbitration agree­ment for disputes arising out of employment, including any arising under anti-discrimination laws enforced by the EEOC. The EEOC

PALM BEACH COUNTY – NICE Systems, Inc., a software company, which provides software for customer experience, regulatory compliance, and financial crime prevention, violated federal law by paying an employee less, retaliating against her, and forcing her to resign because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. 

According to the EEOC’s suit, after the employee informed her supervisor that she was pregnant he stopped assigning her sales

CHICAGO – Personnel Staffing Group, LLC, doing business as Most Valuable Personnel (MVP), and MVP Workforce, LLC will pay $568,500 to resolve a race and sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, temporary employment agencies MVP and MVP Workforce dis­criminated against black and female applicants and employees by refusing to send them on work assign­ments or by sending them for

DETROIT — Powerlink Facilities Management Services, a Michigan-based management and maintenance services company, will pay $25,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Powerlink violated federal law by failing to provide a reason­able accommodation to a deaf employee. The company uses training videos during its employee orien­tation. Instead of providing the employee with

PITTSBURGH – Deborah Kane has been chosen as the new area director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Pittsburgh Area Office, the federal agency announced today. As the director of the EEOC Pittsburgh Area Office, Kane will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the office and supervising the office staff.

“I am very pleased that Deborah will be the director of our Pittsburgh Area Office,” said EEOC Philadelphia District Director Jamie

BUFFALO, N.Y. – James Cars of Hamburg, LLC, doing business as James Mitsubishi Hamburg, and its parent company James Auto Management LLC, violated federal law by subjecting two female employees 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 lawsuit, the general manager of the Hamburg dealership and two other dealerships owned by the parent company in Rome and Greece, N.Y

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Capital City Dental Care, a dental practice headquartered in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburb of Camp Hill, will pay $100,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

EEOC charged that after a new owner purchased the dental practice, it fired eight out of nine dental hygienists older than 40, based on their ages. Capital City Dental Care later replaced

TAMPA, Fla. – Pediatric Health Care Alliance, a Tampa-based pediatric medical practice, violated federal law when it retaliated against a female registered nurse for reporting that a doctor, who was also a company vice president, inappropriately touched her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The employer transferred her to another location where her work conditions were intolerable so that she was forced to resign, the EEOC said.

According

WASHINGTON – Judy Keenan has been chosen as the new district director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) New York District, the federal agency announced today.

“Judy Keenan is committed to serving the New York District Office and their constituents” said EEOC Chair Janet Dhillon. “I am confident that Judy’s years of experience, both with the agency and in the private sector, will serve our mission well for years to come.”

Keenan said

WASHINGTON – Thomas Colclough has been chosen as the new district director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Charlotte District, the federal agency announced today.

“I am delighted that Tom Colclough will be the new director of the agency’s Charlotte District,” said EEOC Chair Janet Dhillon. “He has truly risen through the ranks, and his qualifications and dedication to the EEOC’s mission will be an asset to the agency.”

Colclough said, “I am

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today posted an updated and expanded technical assistance publication addressing questions arising under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The new question added to the publication, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws” explains that in light of current CDC Interim Guidelines, the ADA at this time does not

NEW YORK – GRK Fresh Greek, a small chain of New York City restaurants currently closed due to the pandemic, will pay $32,000 and take other steps to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, GRK's former district manager touched women in vulgar personal and sexual ways. He also talked about wanting them to lose weight or wear tighter