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CLEVELAND – Andy Chevrolet, doing business as Sims Chevrolet, a Cleveland automobile dealership, will pay $85,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination and retalia­tion lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Delta Family Health and Fitness Center for Children, Inc. in Hamburg, Ark., violated federal law by firing four employees who were involved in the filing of several discrimination complaints, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit late yesterday against YRC, Inc., alleging that it subjected black employees at its Chicago Ridge, Ill., facility to a racially hostile working environment. The suit also names Yellow Transportation, which operated the facility until its merger with Roadway Express, which resulted in the combination of the companies under the YRC, Inc. name in October 2008. YRC, Inc. is now the nation's largest less-than-truckload freight hauling company and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kan.

Tim Dahle Imports, doing business as Tim Dahle Nissan of Sandy, Utah, will pay $455,000 and furnish substantial remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

Credit Card Company Subjected Blacks to Racial Slurs and Insults, Agency Charged 

         

PHOENIX – NPMG Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Phoenix credit card processing company, will pay $415,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a race harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  The EEOC had charged that NPMG subjected a group of African American workers to racial slurs and epithets.

 

EEOC Prevails in Case Involving Physical and Verbal Abuse of Glassblowers

     

PHOENIX – A federal district court today entered a Federal Court Judgment for over $267,000 and significant injunctive relief in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a discrimination lawsuit against Sunfire Glass, Inc. The EEOC's suit charged that the company's owner subjected a class of female employees to severe physical and verbal sexual harassment in violation of

Federal Agency Says Historically Black College Discriminated Against Three White Faculty Members Based on Race

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Benedict College discriminated against three  white faculty members because of their race in 2005, the U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The lawsuit was filed along with a consent  decree resolving the case. Benedict College  is a private historically black college located in Columbia, S.C. According to its web site, Benedict

EEOC Says Car Dealership Refused to Hire a Salesperson Due to Perceived Mental Disability

     

HONOLULU – Valley Isle Motors, Ltd., a car dealership in Maui, unlawfully discriminated against an employee by failing to hire him for a salesperson position because of a perceived mental disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

           

The EEOC charged in its suit, (EEOC

EEOC Says Three Women Subjected to Vulgar Sexual Comments, Unwanted Touching, Propositioning

 

SEATTLE – Fred Meyer Stores, Inc. (Fred Meyer) will  pay $485,000 to three female victims of sexual harassment and retaliation to  settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission  (EEOC), the EEOC announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit (EEOC, et. al. v. Fred Meyer Stores, Inc. No. CV08-0208 HA, United States District Court of Oregon), the company’s

Federal Agency Charged Cell Phone Refurbishing Company With Paying Hispanic Workers Less Than Others and Firing Employees Who Complained

 

NEW YORK – A New York-based  company that refurbishes cell phones at its factory in Long  Island will pay $435,000 to settle a wage discrimination and  retaliation suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),  the agency announced today.

The EEOC  had charged that First Wireless Group, Inc. engaged in a pattern or

Co-Worker Rapped Racial Slurs Despite Complaints, EEOC Charged

SAN JOSE – A major Silicon Valley manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment will pay $168,000 to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  The EEOC had charged Novellus Systems, Inc. with subjecting an African American worker to racial harassment.

     

According to the EEOC's suit, Michael Cooke had to listen on a

EEOC Settles Job Discrimination Suit with Landmark NYC Restaurant

     

NEW YORK – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a harassment and retaliation lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against Tavern on the Green, a landmark restaurant located in Central Park in New York City, for $2.2 million and significant remedial relief.

     

The EEOC charged in the case that Tavern on

EEOC Settles Suit Involving Hangman's Nooses, KKK Graffiti and Slurs at Construction Site

     

PHILADELPHIA  — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a  major settlement of a racial harassment lawsuit for $1,650,000 and significant  remedial relief against Conectiv, A.C. Dellovade, Inc., Steel Suppliers  Erectors, Inc. and Matrix Services Industrial Contractors (doing business as  Bogan, Inc. /Hake Group) on behalf of African American employees who were  subjected to egregious racial harassment

EEOC Resolves Class Case Involving Nooses, Racial Slurs and Graffiti at Airport Facility

     

DALLAS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a race and national origin harassment lawsuit for $1.9 million and significant remedial relief against Allied Aviation Services, Inc. on behalf of African American and Hispanic workers who were the targets of racial slurs, graffiti, cartoons, and hangman's nooses at a facility in the Dallas/Ft

Discrimination Charges Highest in Five Years; Agency Obtains $345 Million for Victims

       

WASHINGTON  – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a total of  82,792 private sector discrimination charge filings last fiscal year, the  highest volume of incoming charges since 2002 and the largest annual increase  (9%) since the early 1990s, the agency reported today as part of its Fiscal  Year 2007 enforcement and litigation statistics. The data, available online

EEOC Settles Class Suit for Black Employees at Racially Hostile Workplace

     

HIGH POINT, N.C. -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a racial harassment lawsuit for $465,000 and significant remedial relief against Henredon Furniture Industries, Inc. on behalf of African American employees who were subjected to a persistent racially hostile work environment at a furniture plant. 

     

According to the EEOC, from approximately 1998

EEOC Race Bias Suit On Behalf of African Americans Can Proceed Without Intimidation, Judge Rules

     

CHICAGO – U.S. Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney of the Federal District Court in Rockford, Ill., issued an order this week largely denying an employer's motion to compel discovery regarding medical and psychological records, arrest records and litigation history of claimants in a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency

EEOC Says Helmerich & Payne Subjected Black Workers to Racist Behavior on Oil Rig

 

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the  settlement of a discrimination lawsuit for $290,000 and significant injunctive  relief against Helmerich  & Payne International Drilling Co. (H & P) on behalf of African American men who were  subjected to a racially hostile work environment on an oil rig. H & P is an energy oriented

EEOC Suits Charged Nooses, Swastikas, Graffiti Were Displayed to Harass Black Workers

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has resolved three race discrimination lawsuits in Alabama and Mississippi for a combined total of nearly half a million dollars and injunctive relief – including the settlement of a class case against Pemco Aeroplex, a Birmingham-based aerospace and defense company, involving nooses, swastikas and other threatening symbols creating a

EEOC Says Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion Harassed Black and Caribbean Workers

     

NEW YORK – A New York geriatric center will pay $900,000 to settle a class race and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today (case, Civ. No. 05-4601, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of New York). 

     

The EEOC charged that Flushing Manor Geriatric Center, Inc., doing

Federal Judge Cites Involvement of Top Management in Permitting Harassment and in Retaliating Against Victims

 

CHICAGO – A federal district judge this morning entered final judgment in an amount exceeding $1.1 million in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and against Custom Companies, a Northlake, Ill., trucking company in a sexual harassment case brought by the agency under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In a 50-page Memorandum

Race and Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Most Frequently Filed Cases

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year received a total of 75,768 discrimination charges against private sector employers, the first increase in charge filings since 2002, the federal agency reported today as part of its Fiscal Year 2006 data.

     

The year-end statistics, available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/enforcement.html, show that charges based on race (27,238), sex (23,247), and retaliation (22,555)

Case Centers on Racist Supervisor Involved in Firing Black Employee, Agency Says

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In a significant legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has reversed a New Mexico lower court’s dismissal of a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC against BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles (BCI) – which owns Phoenix Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Coca-Cola Bottling Company

More Than 12,300 Women Nationwide to Receive Monetary Relief in Landmark Case

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that, pursuant to a court-filed consent decree, telecommunications giant Verizon Communications, Inc. will pay approximately $48.9 million to 12,326 current and former female employees in 13 states and the District of Columbia as part of a 2002 settlement of a landmark class action lawsuit alleging pregnancy discrimination against Verizon predecessor