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Platinum P.T.S. To Pay $100k to Settle EEOC Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit

Platinum P.T.S., Inc., a Laredo-based company which provides oil/gas testing, measuring, surveying and analysis surveys, and oil and gas exploration and development, will pay a former employee $100,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
August 8, 2013

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EEOC Sues Midwest Regional Medical Center  For Disability Discrimination

Midwest Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital and for-profit Oklahoma limited liability corporation, violated federal law by firing an employee because of her cancer and cancer treatment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
July 30, 2013

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Care Manor Nursing and Rehab Center Settles  EEOC Retaliation Lawsuit

Care Manor Nursing and Rehab Center in Mountain Home, Ark., will pay $22,500 to a former employee and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit for retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
July 29, 2013

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Nags Head Hotel to Pay $45,000 to Settle EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

A hotel group which owns and operates the Comfort Inn Oceanfront South in Nags Head, N.C., has agreed to pay $45,000 and provide substantial additional relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  
July 23, 2013

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Morgan Hill Restaurant Settles EEOC Retaliation Suit

The Good Fork (formerly doing business as Fuzia), a Morgan Hill restaurant, agreed to pay $20,000 to a former dishwasher and to implement preventative measures to settle a federal retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
July 22, 2013

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Ultra Foods Sued by EEOC for Sex Discrimination

A Northern Indiana grocer unlawfully refused to hire a class of women to night shift stocking jobs because of their sex, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
July 22, 2013

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EEOC Sues United Cellular for Religious Discrimination

United Cellular, Inc., an Alabama corporation, violated federal law by subjecting an employee to religious discrimination by refusing to accommodate his religious belief as a practicing Seventh Day Adventist, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on June 27, 2013. 
July 18, 2013

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$100,000 Consent Decree Ends Disabilities Act Lawsuit Against Giant Staffing Agency

Staffmark Investment LLC, one of the nation's largest commercial staffing companies, will pay $100,000 under a consent decree entered June 25, 2013 which ended a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).  The EEOC alleged that Staffmark violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it terminated a woman with a prosthetic leg because of her disability.
July 15, 2013

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EEOC and Baker & Taylor Resolve Title VII Claim Challenging Severance Agreement

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered on July 10, 2013 a consent decree resolving a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Baker & Taylor, Inc., a leading distributor of print and digital content to libraries and retailers.  The decree resolves Case No. 1:13 cv 03729, which was assigned to U.S. District Judge John Nordberg.
July 11, 2013

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MISO to Pay $90,500 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), a Carmel, Ind.-based power grid operator for much of the Midwest, will pay $90,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
July 11, 2013

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EEOC Sues Extended Stay Hotels for  Pay Discrimination Based on Sex

A leading hotel chain, Extended Stay Hotels, unlawfully paid female employees lower wages than those paid to male employees for performing equal work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
July 11, 2013

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Lilly Ledbetter to Headline EXCEL Training Event August 27-29 in Denver

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Equal Pay Act, Lilly Ledbetter, for whom the Lilly Ledbetter Act was named, will be the keynote speaker at the annual U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) training conference, the EEOC Training Institute announced. For the first time, the conference, to be held in Denver on August 27-29, 2013, will feature separate sessions directed at private sector practitioners.
July 10, 2013

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Pacific Airport Services in Saipan Settles EEOC Sexual Harassment Suit for $65,000

Pacific Airport Services, Inc., an airport services provider for various airlines servicing Saipan, will pay $65,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
July 3, 2013

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EEOC Sues Management Consulting Company for Disability Discrimination

San Jose-based enterprise Riviera Consulting & Management Consulting, LLC, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee with retinitis pigmentosa and then subsequently fired him because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
July 3, 2013

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Illini Precast Agrees to Consent Decree in Sex Discrimination Case Brought by EEOC

Federal District Judge Milton Shadur has entered a consent decree resolving a sex hiring lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  The case, 11-CV-879, was filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
July 3, 2013

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EEOC Sued Fred Fuller Oil Company for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

Fred Fuller Oil Company, a Hudson, N.H.-based oil company, violated federal law when Fred Fuller, its owner, sexually harassed two women, caused the constructive discharge of one, and fired the other, her close friend, in retaliation for the first woman indicating she intended to file a claim of discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.  This lawsuit is the second time EEOC has sued the company because of Fuller's sexual harassment and retaliation.
June 28, 2013