Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  TAMPA, Fla. – Elon Property Management LLC (Elon), a property management company based in Lakewood, New Jersey, violated federal law by retaliating against an employee for utilizing disability leave and maintaining a policy that screened out and discriminated against a class of employees with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-elon-property-management-disability-discrimination-florida

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  ATLANTA – Lubin Logistics Company, which operates as a small package delivery contractor for the international shipping brand FedEx, will pay $20,000 and take remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/lubin-logistics-pay-20000-and-provide-remedial-measures-eeoc-disability-discrimination

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  NORFOLK, Va. – Value Unlimited, Inc., doing business as ChowCall, a food delivery service in Norfolk, Virginia, violated the law by refusing to comply with the terms of a conciliation agreement, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-chowcall-breaching-conciliation-agreement

 

• Thursday, December 19, 2024
  WASHINGTON – A new fact sheet titled “Wearables in the Workplace: The Use of Wearables and Other Monitoring Technology Under Federal Employment Discrimination Laws,” released today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) addresses use of wearable technologies in the nation’s workplaces. These technologies can be used to track various physical factors, such as an employee’s location, heart rate, electrical brain activity, or fatigue.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-highlights-how-wearable-technologies-may-implicate-employment-discrimination-laws

 

• Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  VALLEJO, Calif. – MedMark Treatment Centers, a subsidiary of BayMark Health Services which provides treatment for opioid addiction and substance use disorders, agreed to provide $55,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/baymark-health-services-pay-55000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-charge

 

• Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released new information for health care providers to help their patients obtain pregnancy and childbirth-related accommodations in the workplace under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-releases-pwfa-information-health-care-providers

 

• Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  PHOENIX — Bell Road Tire and Auto LLC, doing business as Big O Tires, a tire company in Glendale, Arizona, will pay $64,500 and implement corrective measures to settle a disability discrimination case,  the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/bell-road-tire-pay-64500-eeoc-disability-discrimination-resolution

 

• Monday, December 16, 2024
  DALLAS – Property management companies Castle Hills Master Association Inc., Bright Realty LLC, Bright Industries LLC, and Bright Executive Services LLC will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/castle-hills-master-association-pay-55000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-suit

 

• Monday, December 16, 2024
  DALLAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the appointment of Timothy Maughan as regional attorney for the agency’s Dallas District Office.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-appoints-maughan-dallas-regional-attorney

 

• Friday, December 13, 2024
  HOUSTON – Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants in ten states and multiple locations in the Houston area, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to sex-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-pizza-hut-sex-based-harassment-and-retaliation

 

• Tuesday, December 10, 2024
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former cellular phone retailer Wireless World LLC, doing business as Experts Choice, will pay $107,916 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against its predecessor Elite Wireless Group, Inc., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. 
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/phone-retailer-pay-107916-eeoc-sexual-harassment-lawsuit

 

• Monday, December 9, 2024
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released its Annual Report on the Federal Workforce for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The report provides the state of equal employment opportunity (EEO) throughout the federal government including benchmarks against which individual agencies can gauge their performance.The report’s first section identified underlying FY 2021 trends in federal sector complaint processing. Main findings included:
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-issues-federal-workforce-report-fiscal-year-2021

 

• Monday, December 9, 2024
  ATLANTA – C.W., Inc., which does business as CPG Staffing, and Executive Personnel Group, LLC, sister staffing companies that assign employees to construction industry clients, illegally discriminated against a job applicant when they rescinded his job offer in Hazlehurst, Georgia, because they regarded him as having a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-cpg-staffing-and-executive-personnel-group-disability-discrimination

 

• Monday, December 9, 2024
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Enforge, LLC, a Michigan-based automotive parts company conducting business in North Carolina, will pay $35,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/enforge-llc-pay-35000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation-suit

 

• Friday, December 6, 2024
  WASHINGTON – Alto Experience, Inc., a ride hailing company that currently operates in Texas, Florida, and California, and previously operated in the District of Columbia and Virginia, violated federal law when it denied reasonable accommodations and employment to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who applied to work as personal drivers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-alto-experience-inc-disability-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, December 3, 2024
  BALTIMORE – The Thomas B. Finan Center of the Maryland Department of Health, a multipurpose psychiatric facility located in Cumberland, Maryland, will pay $270,000 to settle an equal pay lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/maryland-department-healths-thomas-b-finan-center-pay-270000-eeoc-sex-discrimination

 

• Friday, November 22, 2024
  WASHINGTON – Susan Harthill, a lawyer and executive leader with 30 years of employment law experience, joined the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as the Director of Appellate Review Programs (ARP) in the agency’s Office of Federal Operations (OFO) on Nov. 18, following her selection in early October.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-appoints-harthill-lead-federal-sector-appellate-reviews

 

• Friday, November 22, 2024
  DALLAS – A federal jury has awarded $2 million in punitive damages against SkyWest Airlines, a Utah-based airline, and $170,000 for emotional harm to Sarah Budd, a female parts clerk, to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The verdict is the largest jury trial award ever obtained by the EEOC in the Northern District of Texas.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/jury-awards-217-million-against-skywest-airlines-sex-discrimination

 

• Thursday, November 21, 2024
  ATLANTA – Total Systems Services, LLC, a global payments processing company based in Columbus, Georgia, will pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/total-systems-services-pay-65000-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Friday, November 15, 2024
  LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages victims of or witnesses to sexual harassment of female workers and discrimination and/or harassment of gay and lesbian workers at Mariscos El Puerto restaurant and La Catrina bar in Las Vegas to come forward and report their experiences to the federal agency in connection with the EEOC’s lawsuits against the two companies.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-encourages-victims-and-witnesses-harassment-mariscos-el-puerto-and-la-catrina-come