Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Thursday, April 24, 2025
  WEST FARGO, N.D. – Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/mail-hauler-trucking-pay-45000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, April 21, 2025
  CHICAGO – Alliance Ground International, Inc. (AGI), a Miami-based air cargo and logistics company, will pay $70,000 and provide additional relief 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/alliance-ground-international-pay-70000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, April 21, 2025
  DALLAS — The Results Companies, LLC, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based business services outsourcing firm, agreed to pay $250,000 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/results-companies-pay-250000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, April 14, 2025
  MINNEAPOLIS – White Pine Senior Living, an assisted living facility in Minnesota, has agreed to pay $73,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/white-pine-senior-living-pay-73000-eeoc-pregnancy-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Friday, April 11, 2025
  WASHINGTON – Four of the world’s largest law firms—Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and A&O Shearman Sterling, LLC—have entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-settlement-four-biglaw-firms-disavow-dei-and-affirm-their-commitment-merit-based

 

• Thursday, April 10, 2025
  ALBUQUERQUE – Allen Theatres, Inc., which operates a chain of movie theaters across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, will pay a total of $250,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/allen-theatres-pay-250000-eeoc-class-age-discrimination-lawsuit-involving-health-benefit

 

• Tuesday, April 8, 2025
  CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC, a freight transportation and logistics company, to enforce a subpoena that the EEOC issued during their investigation of a sex and pregnancy discrimination charge, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-files-agencys-first-subpoena-enforcement-action-under-pregnant-workers-fairness-act

 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025
  GREENSBORO, N.C. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is inviting male job applicants who were not hired by Kickback Jack’s restaurants in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to contact the federal agency for possible inclusion in a sex discrimination case, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/male-job-seekers-not-hired-kickback-jacks-restaurants-may-have-suffered-discrimination

 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025
  BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – Kurt Bluemel, Inc., a plant nursery in Baldwin, Maryland, will pay $40,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/kurt-bluemel-inc-pay-40000-eeoc-pregnancy-discrimination-suit

 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025
  PHILADELPHIA – Support Center for Child Advocates (SCCA), which provides legal assistance and social services to juveniles, violated federal law when it denied an employee with a high-risk pregnancy an accommodation to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-support-center-child-advocates-pregnancy-discrimination

 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025
  MIAMI – Florida Care ALF of Amelia Island, Inc., doing business as Amelia Springs Assisted Living, has agreed to pay $20,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, as soon as Amelia Springs Assisted Living management learned that one of their temporary staffers was pregnant, they refused to give her more shifts and fired her.   
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/amelia-springs-pay-20000-eeoc-pregnancy-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025
  CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC, a freight transportation and logistics company, to enforce a subpoena that the EEOC issued during their investigation of a sex and pregnancy discrimination charge, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-files-agencys-first-subpoena-enforcement-action-under-pregnant-workers-fairness-act-0

 

• Tuesday, April 1, 2025
  HAYWARD, Calif. – Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, a non-profit medical center with 15 health centers and clinics through southern Alameda County, has agreed to provide $195,000 to three female employees and other injunctive relief following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/tiburcio-vasquez-health-center-pay-195000-settle-eeoc-equal-pay-charge

 

• Tuesday, April 1, 2025
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. – National restaurant chain Chipotle Services, Inc. will pay $20,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) religious harassment, retaliation, and constructive discharge lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/chipotle-pay-20000-eeoc-religious-harassment-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, March 25, 2025
  ATLANTA – Reliable Maintenance Solutions, Inc., which provides quarry services for mine sites in Georgia, will pay $25,000 and undertake remedial measures 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/reliable-maintenance-solutions-pay-25000-and-undertake-remedial-measures-eeoc-disability

 

• Tuesday, March 25, 2025
  ATLANTA – C.W. Inc. (doing business as CPG Staffing) and Executive Personnel Group, LLC, sister staffing companies that assign employees to construction industry clients, agreed to pay $60,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/cpg-staffing-and-executive-personnel-group-pay-60000-settle-eeoc-disability-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, March 25, 2025
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Donald J. Trump has renominated Acting Chair Andrea R. Lucas to another five-year term at the EEOC. Lucas has served as a member of the EEOC since 2020, having been nominated by President Trump during his first term.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/president-trump-renominates-andrea-r-lucas-eeoc

 

• Monday, March 24, 2025
  DALLAS – A federal judge has denied SkyWest Airlines, Inc.’s bid for a new trial and upheld an order that SkyWest pay a former parts clerk $300,000 in damages. The ruling came after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit in which a federal jury found SkyWest liable for subjecting her to a sexually hostile work environment. The court further ordered injunctive relief for a three-year period. 
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/dallas-trial-court-upholds-maximum-damages-award-300000-against-skywest-airlines-inc-eeoc

 

• Monday, March 24, 2025
  Lewisburg, W.V. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP (Walmart) will pay $415,112 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/walmart-pay-415112-eeoc-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation-suit

 

• Monday, March 24, 2025
  SALT LAKE CITY – HHS Environmental, LLC, a company providing janitorial and other services to hospitals nationwide, will pay $400,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/hhs-environmental-pay-400000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-lawsuit