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CHICAGO – Chicago Meat Authority, a Chicago meat processing plant, will pay $1.1 million and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination case brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC's lawsuit charged that Chicago Meat Authority discriminated against Black applicants in hiring, subjected African American employees who were in the workforce to racial harassment, and fired a Black employee because of his race and in

SEATTLE – Mental health and psychiatric treatment provider Telecare Mental Health Services of Washington, Inc. violated federal law when it withdrew a job offer because of a qualified applicant’s disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed on Sept. 30.

According to the EEOC’s suit, after a successful interview in which the job applicant disclosed a leg injury that prevented him from prolonged walking, sitting or standing, Telecare offered

NEW YORK – AZ Metro Distributors, LLC, a distributor of Arizona Iced Tea products, will pay $300,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that the company willfully discriminated against two sales employees by discharging them because of age, and, in September 2019, a jury agreed. After the EEOC declined to accept a lesser

CHICAGO – Aerotek, a national temporary placement agency, has agreed to pay $3.525 million to resolve federal systemic investigations relating to the hiring and placement of individuals assigned to work at Aerotek’s clients, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC, Aerotek failed to recruit and denied assignments/placements and/or hiring to individuals based on age (over 40), sex and race. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights

CHEYENNE, WY– Skils’kin, a non-profit focused on disabilities and employment that operates in Washington, Montana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, violated federal law by subjecting an African American employee, to race discrimination and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC, Skils’kin subjected Bryan Wheels to a hostile work environment based on his race, retaliated against him for complaining about race discrimination while working on a crew

ST. LOUIS – A.V.I. Sea Bar & Chophouse LLC, a restaurant and catering company in Wichita, Kansas, violated federal law when it fired a hostess because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the restaurant, A.V.I. Seabar & Chophouse, hired Macee Hoffman in December 2018 to work as a hostess and learned shortly thereafter of her pregnancy. As Hoffman’s pregnancy

PHILADELPHIA – The Pai Corporation, doing business as Excentia Human Services and as Excentia and S. June Smith Center (“Excentia”), violated federal law when it discriminated against a candidate with cerebral palsy for employment because of her disability, the EEOC charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Stevie Baum was a qualified candidate for a preschool teacher assistant position with Excentia and had two successful interviews.  After Baum reported to the

Fort Smith, Ark. –Hospital Housekeeping Services (HHS) violated federal law when it terminated employees who failed its Essential Functions Test (EFT) because of their disabilities, despite their ability to perform their job, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today. The lawsuit alleges the EFT screened out individuals with  disabilities.  
              
According to the EEOC’s suit, around 2015, HHS began requiring its employees to take the EFT at hire, annually

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Iowa-based trucking company Schuster Co. has agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Schuster’s use of the CRT test, a strength test developed by Davenport, Iowa-based Cost Reduction Technologies, Inc., discriminated against women truck drivers because of their sex. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that the CRT test disproportionately screens out women who are

PORTLAND, Ore. — Construction software developer Viewpoint, Inc. and its recruiter, CampusPoint Corporation, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate or hire a qualified deaf applicant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC’s investigation found that CampusPoint selected the applicant to interview for an analyst position with its client Viewpoint, with both companies agreeing that he was highly qualified, and his experience was “ideal”.  However, when the

NEW YORK – Software People, an IT support staffing agency based in Long Island, New York that contracts with local and state governmental agencies throughout the country, violated federal law when it refused to refer an otherwise qualified candidate for a position after he objected to a recruiter’s inquiry concerning the candidate’s age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.   
 
According to the EEOC’s complaint, Timothy Mailloux

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Texar Line Clearance, LLC violated federal civil rights law when it steered Black applicants into lower-paying positions than non-Black applicants and hired Black applicants at lower wage rates than non-Black applicants, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
    
According to the EEOC’s suit, beginning in at least 2019, Texar preferred non-Black applicants over African American applicants in the hiring process. Further, Texar regularly

CHICAGO – Automaker Ford Motor Company violated federal law when it refused to hire a pregnant applicant to work at its stamping plant in Chicago Heights, Illinois, due to her pregnancy the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed in Chicago yesterday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a female applicant received a conditional offer of hire in June 2019 to work at the Chicago Heights stamping plant, subject to passing a

ATLANTA – Pilot Freight Services, Inc., an international freight shipping and logistics company based in Atlanta, unlawfully fired its international manager because of his cancer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s suit, on or about June 7, 2019, Thomas Hunt informed his manager that he needed to request leave to see his doctor about some biopsy results. About 10 days later, Hunt was

DALLAS – A refrigerated transport carrier that services major companies in need of over-the-road trucking violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant based on his disability, hyper-tension, and because it regarded him as disabled, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The EEOC’s suit also alleges that Stevens Transport, Inc. violated the law when it asked the applicant a disability-related question before an offer of employment was

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tyson Foods, Inc., a worldwide food company based in Springdale, Arkansas that produces approximately 20% of the beef, pork, and chicken in the United States, violated federal law when it refused to rehire a former employee for a job because she had previously filed an EEOC discrimination charge against the company, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday.  

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in

NEW YORK – A restaurant group that includes Liberty Warehouse, a popular Brooklyn, N.Y. wedding venue, agreed to pay $125,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.  That restaurant group includes the Manhattan restaurants and event spaces called The Water Club, The River Café, and Pershing Square.   

According to the EEOC, Liberty Warehouse’s head chef subjected

FRESNO, Calif. – ABM Industry Groups, LLC (ABM), a facility management services company, has settled federal charges of sexual harassment filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $310,000 and other injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

According to charges made to the EEOC, ABM subjected a class of female employees to persistent sexual harassment, including unwanted touching and sexual advances, vulgar phone calls, unwelcome sexually explicit gifts, and creating a hostile

PHOENIX – RCC Partners, LLC, doing business as Subway 701 in Buckeye, Arizona, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee with autism and ADHD and then fired because he had a disability and/or need for accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Friday.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Subway 701 hired Kenneth Wiley in 2019 after his mother explained to the restaurant that Wiley needed

NEW ORLEANS – Bourne’s House, LLC, doing business as Bourne’s House Restaurant, violated federal law when it fired and then later refused to rehire a worker because she was pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed September 8, 2021.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a manager at the company’s Franklinton, Louisiana, restaurant fired the newly-hired worker after sending her a social media message saying, “I'm not gonna be able

MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge has ruled as a matter of law that Stan Koch & Sons Trucking violated federal law by using a strength test developed by Cost Reduction Technologies because it discriminates against women truck drivers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. Koch, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a family-owned trucking company with over 1,000 trucks which operates both nationally and on regional and local routes.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit

DALLAS — Dell, Inc. has agreed to pay $75,000 and to provide other relief to settle an equal pay and sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Kea Golden worked as an information technology (IT) analyst for Dell, Inc. beginning in September 2017. At the time of hire by Dell, Golden had 24 years of IT experience. In September 2017

HOUSTON – Industrial equipment and services companies The Modern Group, Ltd. and Beaumont, Texas-based Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC violated federal law when Dragon Rig refused to hire a job applicant because of his use of prescription medication to treat his anxiety and opioid addiction disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Aug. 19. The companies operate as integrated enterprise, the EEOC says.

According to the EEOC’s

OXFORD, Miss. – Labor Source, L.L.C. doing business as Wise Staffing, part of Wise Staffing Group, one of the largest staffing services in the Southeast, will pay $40,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging failure to hire based on pregnancy, the federal agency announced today. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Labor Source / Wise Staffing, headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, failed to hire a qualified pregnant