Newsroom

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
9-30-09

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Napoli’s Italian Restaurant discriminated against a 17-year old server and other female teen workers by subjecting them to sexual harassment in the form of lewd comments, propositions and touching, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court. Napoli’s Italian Restaurant is located in Maryville, Mo.

According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in the U.S

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
4-25-00

COLUMBIA, SC -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit today against Augusta Fiberglass and Coating, Inc., alleging that a class of African American employees was subjected to race discrimination and a racially hostile working environment from 1979 until present at the company's Blackville, South Carolina, plant.

According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
9-9-09

Texas Oilfield Company Fired Worker for Complaining About Harassment Because He Is Not Hispanic, Federal Agency Charged

DALLAS – An Alice, Texas-based oilfield service company will pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race, national origin and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged the company’s Hispanic supervisors discriminated against a

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
4-7-08

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of its age discrimination lawsuit against Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications for $773,000 for a class of eight older employees.

In its suit (05-cv-00287-RWT), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division, the EEOC charged that the Bethesda, Md.-based employer violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) when

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
5-15-08

HONOLULU – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a federal lawsuit against NCL America, Inc. for $485,000 to seven former employees and remedial relief.

In its lawsuit, filed in 2006 under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the EEOC alleged that NCL America discharged seven Middle Eastern crew members from various positions on the cruise ship "Pride of

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
5-23-03

City University of New York Pays Tribute to Commissioner for Life-Long Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Disability-Rights Advocacy

WASHINGTON - Paul Steven Miller, a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today was awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law at Queens College the highest award given by the educational institution.

The

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
5-8-02

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today announced a mediated settlement for $2.2 million of EEOC's lawsuit which alleged that BNSF violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) by genetically testing or seeking to test 36 of its employees without their knowledge or consent. The genetic test was part of a

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
1-12-05

EEOC Suit Said Dockworkers Subjected to Physical Assault, Nooses and Racial Slurs

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act against Consolidated Freightways Corporation of Delaware for $2,750,000 on behalf of 12 African American dockworkers who were subjected to a racially hostile work environment at

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
6-16-08

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next open meeting on Wednesday, June 18, at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission’s deliberations. During the meeting, the following matters are scheduled for consideration:

• Announcement of Notation Votes,
• Modified Strategic Plan for

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

Image

Commissioner Christine M. Griffin is sworn in by Chair Cari M. Dominguez as her husband looks on.

PRESS RELEASE
1-3-06

Bipartisan Five-Member Commission Again at Full Complement

WASHINGTON -- Christine M. Griffin was sworn in today as a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), bringing the bipartisan panel to its full five-member complement for the first time in more than a year. Ms. Griffin was nominated

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
6-28-02

Commission Rescinds Prior Guidance, Issues Charge Processing Instructions

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today reaffirmed that the Supreme Court's decision in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, 122 S. Ct. 1275 (2002), does not affect the government's ability to root out discrimination against undocumented workers. Federal law makes it illegal to discriminate against any worker in the United

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
10-19-05

Emergency Preparedness and People with Disabilities: Is the Workplace Ready?

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next open meeting on Tuesday, October 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W., to build awareness of issues that employers of people with disabilities should consider when preparing for emergencies.

At the meeting –

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
6-9-06

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

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
10-29-03

Higher Incidence of Diabetes and More Charges of Discrimination Spur Need for Information About Application of Americans with Disabilities Act

WASHINGTON - In the spirit of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a fact sheet on how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to diabetes in the workplace. This publication, available at www.eeoc.gov, is designed to

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

Image

EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp administers the oath of office to Commissioner Constance Barker, as Commissioner Barker's husband and daughter look on.

PRESS RELEASE
7-16-08

WASHINGTON – Constance S. Barker has been sworn in as a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Ms. Barker was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 31, 2008, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   Ellen Vargyas, November 12, 1997                             EEOC Legal Counsel                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TTY: (202) 663-4494                                                Jim Haney, NAAG                                               (608) 266-1221 

PRESS RELEASE
11-12-97

WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance federal-state communication, cooperation, and coordination in the enforcement

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
7-26-04

EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez to Address Hundreds of Federal Officials at National EXCEL Program Aug. 30 - Sept. 2

WASHINGTON The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its annual federal sector EXCEL program for government employees, managers, and union officials from August 30 through September 2, 2004, at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

EXCEL is the EEOC's premier federal sector

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
11-25-03

Trim Masters and Cardinal Freight Carriers Enter ADR Partnerships with Commission

WASHINGTON - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced the signing of the latest National Universal Agreements to Mediate (NUAMs) with Trim Masters, Inc. and Cardinal Freight Carriers, Inc., bolstering the trend of such partnerships between EEOC and corporate America. The two mediation pacts mark the the 21st

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
7-6-09

WASHINGTON – Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has appointed Dexter Brooks as the EEOC’s Director of Federal Sector Programs, the EEOC announced today.

Brooks, a highly regarded national expert in the federal sector EEO and affirmative employment programs, had previously directed the EEOC’s federal sector training and outreach efforts. Immediately prior to his selection, he had served as

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

---

PRESS RELEASE
12-15-04

Teens Told How to Handle Employment Discrimination at Nationwide Press Conference for High School Journalists

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) yesterday held its first-ever nationwide press conference for high school journalists to discuss the problem of sexual harassment and other discriminatory conduct against teens in American workplaces.

"Discrimination happens to employees of all ages, but offenders sometimes single out teen workers because