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EEOC Sues Trafficade for Harassing Two Hispanic Employees

PHOENIX – Trafficade Service, Inc. violated federal law when it subjected two Hispanic employees to verbal and physical harassment because of their national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC further charged that Trafficade retaliated against the same two employees for opposing the harassment.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Trafficade managers and employees repeatedly used racial slurs when referring to the employees and created an unsafe workplace

August 5, 2020

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UPS Freight to Pay $75,000 to Resolve Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

ST. LOUIS – A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for District of Kansas entered an order today formalizing a settlement resolving the final dispute between UPS Freight and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a three-year old lawsuit.

The EEOC filed suit in August 2017 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. UPS Ground Freight, Inc., Civil Action No. 2:17-cv- 02453) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). According to the

July 29, 2020

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Norfolk Southern to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle EEOC Systemic Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

PITTSBURGH, P.a. – Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Norfolk Southern) will pay $2.5 million dollars to 37 workers and furnish significant 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, Norfolk Southern’s medical department medically disqualified workers from employment based on a range of actual or perceived disabilities, or a history of such disabilities

July 28, 2020

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Guidewire Software to Pay $200,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO – Foster City-based software publisher Guidewire Software, Inc. will pay $200,000 and hire a consultant to facilitate changes to its policies and training practices to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Guidewire invited a qualified applicant to participate in a phone screening for a position at the company based on her online application and resume

July 28, 2020

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EEOC Announces Pilot Programs to Increase Voluntary Resolutions

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced two six-month pilot programs that will expand opportunities for parties to voluntarily resolve charges through mediation and increase the effectiveness of the conciliation process. 

“EEOC’s popular mediation program has been tremendously successful over its 20-year history and the ACT Mediation pilot creates more opportunities to resolve charges throughout an investigation,” said EEOC Chair Janet Dhillon.  “Similarly, the change being piloted in the conciliation process

July 7, 2020

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Pediatrics 2000 to Pay $68,000 to Settle Religious Accommodation Lawsuit

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

July 2, 2020

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EEOC Sues Nice Systems, Inc., for Pregnancy Discrimination, Retaliation, and Constructive Discharge

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

July 1, 2020

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Capital City Dental Care to Pay $100,000 To Settle EEOC Age Discrimination Suit

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

June 23, 2020

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EEOC Sues Pediatric Health Care Alliance for Retaliation Over Harassment Complaints

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

June 22, 2020

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EEOC Issues Federal Sector Report

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published a report to provide recommended best practices for federal agencies when processing conflict of interest cases. The recommendations set forth in this report underscore the EEOC’s commitment to supporting all federal agencies in their efforts to be model employers.

In Fiscal Year 2019, the EEOC conducted a program evaluation to explore the processing of conflict cases within the federal EEO community. To inform suggested

June 12, 2020

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Pay $10 Million to Settle EEOC Age Discrimination Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the settlement of an age discrimination lawsuit against Pasadena, Calif.-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The laboratory has agreed to pay $10 million, along with injunctive relief, in order to reach an early resolution of the suit.

According to the EEOC, JPL systemically laid off employees over the age of 40 in favor of retaining younger employees. The complaint also alleges that older employees

June 11, 2020

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Albertsons to Pay $210,000 to Settle EEOC National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit

SAN DIEGO – Albertsons LLC, a national retail grocery chain, has agreed to pay $210,000 to settle a class national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that Albertsons allowed a manager to harass Hispanic employees, particularly limited English-speaking employees, because they spoke Spanish, at an Albertsons store on Lake Murray Blvd. in La Mesa, California, formerly Store No. 6785. 

Such

June 2, 2020

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EEOC Sues Helados La Tapatia for Hispanic-Preference Hiring

FRESNO – Helados La Tapatia, Inc., violated federal law when they failed to hire non-Hispanic applicants for entry-level positions because of their race/national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, the Fresno, California-based company favored less-qualified Hispanic job applicants over all other applicants of a different race or national origin (including black, white and Asian applicants) in entry-level positions, such as Route Sales Driver

May 26, 2020

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Faurecia Madison Automobile Seating, Inc. to Pay $825,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

JACKSON, Ms. – Faurecia Madison Automobile Seating, Inc., a manufacturer of automobile seat frames in Madison, Mississippi, has agreed to pay $825,000 and furnish significant equitable relief    to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Faurecia screened its predecessor, Johnson Controls’ former employees and failed to hire 15 of them basing their hiring decisions on the number of sick or FMLA days they

May 13, 2020

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EEOC Sues Thompson Construction Group for Race Discrimination

RALEIGH, N.C. – Thompson Construction Group, Inc., a heavy industrial contractor based in Sumter, S.C., violated federal law when it fired a black employee because of his race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the African American employee began working as a pipefitter foreman for Thompson Construction Group around July 2018 at a job site in Semora, N.C. The pipefitter foreman was assigned

May 7, 2020

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EEOC Sues LogistiCare Solutions and HCM Staffing for Pregnancy Discrimination

PHOENIX – Phoenix call center LogistiCare Solutions LLC violated federal law when it fired temporary employees placed by a staffing company because they were pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Friday. The EEOC also charged that the staffing company, Human Capital Management, Inc., doing business as HCM Staffing, violated federal law when it did not take appropriate corrective action after it learned that LogistiCare terminated its employees

May 4, 2020

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Rogers Memorial Hospital Settles EEOC Disability Discrimination Case

MILWAUKEE -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Rogers Memorial Hospital, Inc., a Wisconsin-licensed, private, not-for-profit psychiatric system with three hospital campuses in the greater Milwaukee area (Brown Deer, Oconomowoc and West Allis), have reached a voluntary conciliation agreement to resolve allegations of disability discrimination raised by a former employee at its Oconomowoc location, the federal agency said today.

Following an investigation, the EEOC had found reasonable cause to believe that Rogers discriminated

April 30, 2020

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Spencer Gifts LLC to Pay $90,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit

HICKORY, N.C. – Spencer Gifts LLC (Spencer), a Delaware corporation that operates novelty gift stores throughout the United States and Canada, will pay $90,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2013, an employee who had worked for Spencer as the store manager of its Hickory, N.C. store since early 2009, was

April 30, 2020

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Champion Fiberglass Settles EEOC Suit for Class Hiring Discrimination

HOUSTON - Champion Fiberglass, Inc. ("Champion"), a Houston-area manufacturing company, has settled a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks entered a consent decree on April 17, 2020, requiring Champion to pay $225,000 to compensate a class of non-Hispanic applicants and job-seekers who were prohibited from applying for a laborer position. The consent decree

April 20, 2020

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Sunridge Nurseries Settles Discrimination Lawsuit

FRESNO - Sunridge Nurseries, Inc., a grower in the grapevine nursery stock industry, has agreed to pay $237,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. 

The EEOC's lawsuit alleged that Sunridge failed to re-hire a group of Filipino seasonal farm workers in retaliation for having complained about national origin/race discrimination. Some of these workers were long term employees.

Such alleged conduct violates Title VII

April 10, 2020

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EEOC Sues Great Rentals and Events for Sex-Based Harassment and Retaliation

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Great Rentals and Events, LLC, a special events company which provides services for weddings and corporate functions, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to a hostile work environment based on her sex and then fired her when she brought the harassment to the attention of management, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the company owner

April 10, 2020

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EEOC Sues LTI Services for Sex Discrimination

INDIANAPOLIS - LTI Services, LLC, a staffing agency which serves the northern Indiana and Chicago areas, violated federal law by refusing to hire qualified female applicants as receiving associates because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, LTI refused to hire women for a receiving associate position for one of its clients, Tire Rack. The EEOC said that women who had

April 9, 2020

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Former Convenience Store Owner to Pay $160,000 to Resolve Disability Discrimination Suit

ST. LOUIS - The former owner of a chain of Oklahoma convenience stores will pay $160,000 to nine alleged victims of disability discrimination to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Brown-Thompson General Partnership fired a warehouse worker and eight other employees with medical conditions who needed reasonable accommodations, including modified duty or an exception to the company's practice of

April 7, 2020

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Target Corporation to Pay $45,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO - Minnesota-based Target Corporation will pay $45,000 and make changes to its hiring and training practices to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC's suit, during hiring for the holiday season at a Target in Antioch, Calif., a deaf applicant submitted his resume on line. Target determined he met the minimum qualifications for various open positions. Target

April 2, 2020