LOS ANGELES – U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has approved and entered the consent decree between Activision Blizzard, Inc. and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which includes $18 million in monetary relief and significant injunctive relief, the federal agency announced today.

Judge Dale Fischer found the consent decree was “fair, reasonable and adequate and advance[s] the public interest.”

By signing the three-year consent decree, the court has resolved the

CAMARILLO, Calif. – Tres Hijas Berry Farm, LLC., an agricultural company that harvests and sells raspberries, violated federal law by allowing a class of employees, female and male, to be subjected to sex-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least October 2018, Tres Hijas Berry Farm allowed a class of employees to be subjected to sex-based harassment by

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Riverwalk Post-Acute, a Riverside skilled nursing facility, violated federal law by allowing a class of Black employees to be subjected to racial harassment and one employee to be retaliated against, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC filed suit against Orange Treeidence OPCO, LLC, Providence Group, Inc., and Providence Administrative Consulting Services, Inc., dba Riverwalk Post-Acute.

According to EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018

LOS ANGELES — Fresh Venture Foods, LLC, a produce processing and shipping company based in Santa Maria, California, violated federal law when it failed to prevent and correct ongoing sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
    
According to the lawsuit, the federal agency alleges that since 2016, male employees of Fresh Venture Foods and different staffing agencies subjected female workers at the Santa

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

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against employment discrimination and harassment, continues its series of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) workshop series, “Employing Individuals with Convictions,” scheduled for Sept. 9.

This second workshop will focus on expanding DE&I by employing those with prior criminal convictions. The workshop will explore the EEOC's guidance on the use of arrest and conviction records in employment and host

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against employment discrimination and harassment, announced today that the EEOC Training Institute is launching a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) workshop series, starting with “Understanding Unconscious Bias in the Workplace” on August 24.

This first workshop will discuss how bias happens in the workplace, the different types of biases, microaggressions, and provide best practices for employers to reduce

LOS ANGELES – Global health care services and products company Cardinal Health will pay $1.45 million to resolve a racial harassment and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. Cardinal Health, along with with California-based staffing agency AppleOne, will also implement sweeping injunctive relief as part of the settlement.

According to the EEOC, African American employees either directly employed by Cardinal Health or assigned to

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Opportunities and Resources, Inc. and ORI Anuenue Hale, Inc. (ORI), a work placement agency for individuals with disabilities, violated federal law when the agency routinely refused to provide sign language interpreters to deaf employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, several deaf employees made repeated requests for sign language interpreters for staff meetings where ORI discussed work safety procedures, work

LOS ANGELES – Ryder Integrated Logistics, Inc., a Miami-based transportation and supply chain solutions company, and Orange County-based staffing agency Kimco Staffing Services, Inc. will pay $1 million each, for a total of $2 million, and provide significant injunctive relief to resolve the lawsuit alleging that the companies violated federal law by subjecting African American employees to racial discrimination, harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
 
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