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OREM, Utah – An Orem, Utah branch of Elwood Staffing Services, a nationwide staffing company, will pay $77,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC alleged in its suit that Elwood Staffing rescinded a conditional job offer because the applicant does not have a left hand. Elwood Staffing did not provide any reasonable accommodations to the applicant

CHICAGO – Pivotal Home Solutions, a home warranty company headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, will pay $175,000 and furnish other relief 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 suit, a former employee worked at Pivotal Home Solutions (“Pivotal”) as a dispatcher through a staffing agency for nearly six months. During that time, she succeeded in her role, received no

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Staffing Solutions of WNY Inc., a Buffalo-based staffing company that places employees with clients throughout Western New York, will pay $550,000 and furnish other relief to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Staffing Solutions either refused to hire highly qualified Black applicants or placed them in the lowest paying, least desirable jobs; complied with clients’

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based Tractor Supply Company violated federal law and the civil rights of an employee with a disability when it publicized her confidential medical information, subjected her to a hostile work environment, disciplined her without justification, and ultimately fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.

The employee was born with a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, which is a disability under the Americans with

ERIE, Pa. – A home health care services company in northwest Pennsylvania violated federal law by firing an employee because she was pregnant and because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC filed the pregnancy and disability discrimination case against Erie-based Heartfelt Home Healthcare Services, Inc. According to the lawsuit, a pregnant scheduling coordinator with hypertension was unlawfully discharged because of those conditions. The

BALTIMORE – Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee because of her race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, Sinclair subjected an analyst, a Black woman who worked for the company in Cockeysville, Maryland, to race discrimination when it underpaid her and forced her out of her job. Sinclair treated other employees who are not Black more

INDIANAPOLIS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it filed suit against Keystone RV Company, headquartered in Goshen, Indiana, for failing to accommodate and firing an employee with a disability at its Wakarusa, Indiana factory.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Keystone refused to give less than a week of unpaid leave to accommodate an employee with a disability who needed surgery. Keystone rigidly adhered to its attendance policy, which required employees with

ALEXANDRIA, La. – Walgreens Co., a pharmacy and retailer, violated federal law when it refused to allow a pregnant worker with disabilities to take emergency leave to seek medical attention, forcing her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a pregnant customer sales associate—who suffered from diabetes and hypoglycemia—was spotting and asked the store manager to allow her to take unscheduled, emergency

BALTIMORE – Lyneer Staffing, LLC, a leading national staffing agency, violated federal law when it failed to refer an applicant for a position at a retail warehouse because she is deaf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. 

According to the lawsuit, a deaf applicant sought a position working in a warehouse through Lyneer Staffing LLC. Initially, she was referred to the client-employer, the client-employer accepted her as a worker and assigned her

DALLAS – Memphis-based International Paper Co. will pay $65,000 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, the claimant received an offer of employment at the company’s Grand Prairie, Texas location conditioned upon a medical examination and negative drug test. As part of the medical examination, the applicant disclosed that he was diagnosed with attention

ST. LOUIS – Operators of an Omaha hotel violated federal law when they fired a general manager after being hospitalized for depression, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, the manager worked at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, which is owned and operated by Anant Enterprises, Anant Operations, and Farnam Lodging. He advised the companies’ human resources official in the fall of 2019 that

NEW ORLEANS – Eagle Marine Services Electrical & Refrigeration, LLC, a marine services company based in Berwick, Louisiana, violated federal law when it refused to hire or accommodate a worker because he used medication prescribed by his doctor to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (“ADHD”) the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company withdrew its offer of a marine electrician position after the

BALTIMORE– Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee because of disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today. 

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the helpdesk technician, who was diagnosed with a schizoaffective disorder, worked for Sinclair at an office located in Cockeysville, Maryland. After Sinclair learned of the technician’s disability, the company suspended and fired her.

Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with

NEW YORK – Maximum Security NYC, Inc., a security company headquartered in Queens, New York, violated federal law when it denied work assignments to and then fired a 57-year-old employee based on his disability and age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, after the employee returned to work following a heart attack suffered on the job in December 2019, he was subjected to

St. Petersburg, Fla. – The Princess Martha, an upscale senior living residence owned and managed by TJM Properties, violated federal law by revoking an applicant’s job offer because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, the applicant, a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), received an offer of employment from Princess Martha conditioned upon a negative drug test. During her

WASHINGTON – On Sept. 13, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte A. Burrows and Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Director Jenny R. Yang hosted a virtual roundtable with external stakeholders to discuss the civil rights implications of the use of automated technology systems, including artificial intelligence, in the recruitment and hiring of workers. The convening was part of the agencies’ joint HIRE Initiative and the EEOC’s AI and

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against the national staffing agency BaronHR, LLC and Radiant Services Corporation, a commercial laundry facility that serves the hospitality industry in Southern California, for discriminatory denial of employment based on race, national origin, and sex, the federal agency announced today

The EEOC charged that since 2015, BaronHR and Radiant failed to recruit, refer, and hire Black, Asian, and White applicants for low-skill positions

CHEYENNE, Wyo.– Skils’kin, a non-profit focused on disabilities and employment that operates in Washington, Montana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, the only Black employee on the Skils’kin grounds crew working at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming was called various racial slurs by other Skils’kin

DETROIT – Global charitable organization The Salvation Army violated federal law at its Ann Arbor, Michigan thrift store when it fired a cashier because of his mental and physical disa­bilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an employment coordinator from Michigan Ability Partners attended the employee’s initial interview and advised the store manager of the emp­loyee’s disabilities. The employee was hired with the

AIKEN, S.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when its Aiken, South Carolina retail store failed to provide reasonable accommodation to a part-time sales associate and then placed him on indefinite unpaid leave, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, shortly after hiring after Luis Quiñones, who has a disability, Walmart accommodated Quiñones by permitting him to use one of the store’s

PHILADELPHIA – Gas Field Specialists, Inc. (GFS), a Potter County, Pennsylvania-based natural gas well service company, will pay $184,000 and provide significant injunctive and other non-monetary relief 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, an employee who had been with the company for 15 years was laid off and then terminated based on a disability or record

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, an employment agency, violated federal law when they both failed to accommodate a customer service representative’s disability and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

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

ROCKFORD, Ill. – Kelley Williamson Company, a Rockford-based gas station, and convenience store operator, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging sexual harassment and improper disclosure of confidential medical information, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female employee at Kelley Williamson’s Byron, Illinois gas station was subjected to months of sexual advances and crude jokes by

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a report on the participation and experiences of women who work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) within the federal government. Although there has been a great deal of focus on women in STEM in the private sector, little has been reported on the diversity and experiences of women working in STEM in the federal sector. The main findings from the report include