Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Thursday, June 5, 2025
  MOBILE, Ala. – Ground Zero Biloxi LLC, which operates a blues club located in Biloxi, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting an assistant manager to sexual harassment by one of its co-owners and firing the worker for complaining about the co-owner’s harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-ground-zero-blues-club-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation

 

• Wednesday, June 4, 2025
  TAMPA, Fla. – CEMEX Construction Materials Florida, LLC, which manufactures and delivers building construction materials, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee’s request to wear a close-fitting skirt over her pants as required by her religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-cemex-construction-materials-florida-religious-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, June 3, 2025
  ST. LOUIS – The Carlstar Group LLC, a Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty tires and wheels, violated federal law when it discriminated against employees at its facilities in Clinton and Jackson, Tennessee, and Aiken, South Carolina, because the workers lawfully used certain prescription medications to treat their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-carlstar-disability-discrimination

 

• Monday, June 2, 2025
  MINNEAPOLIS – R & G Endeavors, Inc., a fast-food franchisee doing business as Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, will pay $261,000 and furnish other relief to settle two cases brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), one involving race, sex and sexual orientation-based harassment in the workplace and another involving disability harassment and pay discrimination, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/culvers-restaurants-franchisee-settles-two-eeoc-race-sex-and-disability-harassment-and

 

• Monday, June 2, 2025
  NEW ORLEANS – Oil field service companies Bigfoot Energy Services and Iron Mountain Energy, who operated as a single employer, will pay $697,500 and provide other equitable relief to settle a lawsuit alleging race- and sex-based harassment and retaliation brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/bigfoot-energy-services-and-iron-mountain-energy-pay-697500-eeoc-race-and-sex-harassment

 

• Thursday, May 22, 2025
  WASHINGTON – Over the past 120 days of the second Trump Administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the leadership of Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has undertaken exhaustive efforts to restore evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws on behalf of all Americans.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-delivers-historic-results-american-workers-first-120-days

 

• Thursday, May 22, 2025
  WASHINGTON – Today the Acting Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Andrea Lucas, announced the beginning of reform in the agency’s federal sector program with the publication of two official memoranda.The EEOC Is Accountable to the Executive Branch
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-acting-chair-andrea-lucas-corrects-eeocs-course-federal-sector-promises

 

• Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  NEW YORK – Entities that own or operate The Ned NoMad hotel and members’ club in Manhattan will pay $100,000 to one former employee 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/ned-nomad-pay-100000-eeoc-disability-lawsuit

 

• Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  BALTIMORE – Criswell Chevrolet, Inc., one of Maryland’s largest independent car dealership groups, violated federal law by refusing to allow a parts department worker to have a service dog at work as a reasonable accommodation for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from combat duty in the Iraq War, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-criswell-chevrolet-refusing-accommodate-disabled-veteran

 

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  MINNEAPOLIS – Premiere Rehab (doing business as Infinity Rehab), a rehabilitation and therapy service provider with locations in 18 states, including Minnesota, has agreed to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. As a result of successful conciliation efforts between the parties, Infinity Rehab has agreed to provide monetary relief to the affected employee and to provide training for all employees and managers.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/infinity-rehab-will-pay-resolve-covid-vaccine-mandate-related-eeoc-religious

 

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the opening today of the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection. In a message to EEO-1 Component 1 filers, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, advancing individual equal opportunity for all, and relentlessly combatting private sector and public sector discrimination.Message from EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/message-eeoc-acting-chair-lucas-about-opening-2024-eeo-1-component-1-data-collection

 

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  SALT LAKE CITY – Franchise Management, LLC, which operates over 20 Subway sandwich shops in Utah, violated federal law when it failed to correct or prevent a male manager from sexually harassing and assaulting a 16-year-old male employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed last Friday.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-subway-franchise-sexual-harassment

 

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  AUSTIN, Texas – Corner Bar, which operates on South Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas, will pay $42,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The lawsuit named three limited liability companies that operate Corner Bar and other Austin-area hospitality businesses.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/corner-bar-pay-42000-eeoc-pregnancy-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  WASHINGTON -- On May 15, 2025, a Texas federal court held the Biden-EEOC’s expansion of the definition of “sex” in its Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace was contrary to law (Texas, et al. v. EEOC, 2:24-CV-173 (N.D. Tex. May 15, 2025)). As a result, the court vacated portions of the guidance nationwide.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/federal-court-vacates-portions-eeoc-harassment-guidance

 

• Thursday, May 15, 2025
  LOS ANGELES – The United Parcel Service (UPS) in Santa Barbara, California, will pay $10,000 and furnish other injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment charge filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a member of a class of injured parties, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/united-parcel-service-settles-eeoc-sexual-harassment-charge

 

• Thursday, May 15, 2025
  HONOLULU – Paia Inn, a hotel on the North Shore of Maui, violated federal law when its owner sexually harassed a class of young female employees and terminated those who complained or tried to address the rampant sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-paia-inn-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation

 

• Tuesday, May 13, 2025
  CLEVELAND – Morton Salt, Inc. will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the affected employee worked for Morton Salt in a labor position in Rittman, Ohio. He was fired and subjected to other unfavorable treatment because of his race (Black), disability, and because he reported alleged discrimination.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/morton-salt-pay-75000-eeoc-retaliation-and-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, May 13, 2025
  CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed an action in federal court to enforce a subpoena that it issued during its investigation into claims that Mauser Packaging Solutions engaged in illegal hiring practices, including limiting, segregating, or classifying applicants by race, national origin, or sex for various Mauser facilities, primarily in the Chicagoland area.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-files-subpoena-enforcement-action-against-mauser-packaging-solutions

 

• Monday, May 12, 2025
  TAMPA, Fla. – A federal jury awarded $405,083 to a veteran in a disability discrimination case against a St. Petersburg, Fla. senior living facility and its operating companies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.According to the EEOC’s suit, The Princess Martha, the senior living facility managed by TJM Property Management and TJM Properties Inc., violated federal law when they denied a reasonable accommodation and refused to hire a veteran who applied for a job.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-wins-405083-jury-verdict-against-st-petersburg-senior-living-facility

 

• Monday, May 12, 2025
  SAN JUAN, P.R. – Triple-S Vida, Inc. and Triple-S Management, Corp. (together, “Triple S”) have agreed to pay $100,000 and provide other equitable 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/triple-s-vida-and-triple-s-management-pay-100000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit-0