Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Thursday, August 28, 2025
  CLEVELAND – Dublin, Ohio-based ViaQuest, LLC and its affiliates, ViaQuest Healthcare Central, LLC and ViaQuest Day and Employment Services, LLC will pay $175,000 and implement significant injunctive relief to resolve a disability discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.The EEOC's investigation found that ViaQuest discriminated and retaliated against an applicant by denying her a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process and refused to employ her because of her disability.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/viaquest-llc-pay-175000-eeoc-disability-charge

 

• Thursday, August 28, 2025
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Landmark Dodge, Inc., and Landmark South, Inc. (Landmark Dodge), the owners of automobile dealerships in Independence, Missouri and formerly in Belton, Missouri, will pay $275,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.The EEOC’s suit alleged Landmark Dodge had a policy of refusing to hire women for sales jobs and men for office jobs, and that the company retaliated against two human resources employees who opposed the practice.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/landmark-dodge-pay-275000-eeoc-sex-discrimination-and-retaliation-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, August 26, 2025
  ATLANTA – BWW Resources, LLC, which owns and operates Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants, agreed to pay $47,500 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/buffalo-wild-wings-pay-47500-eeoc-religious-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Friday, August 22, 2025
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today a federal court filing to enforce two administrative subpoenas it issued during its investigation into allegations Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) engaged in intentionally discriminatory hiring and other unlawful employment practices against Native American applicants and employees.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-files-subpoena-enforcement-action-against-gallup-mckinley-county-schools

 

• Friday, August 22, 2025
  WASHINGTON – For more than six decades, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has enforced Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination in the workplace.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/200-days-eeoc-action-protect-religious-freedom-work

 

• Wednesday, August 20, 2025
  MILWAUKEE – Kwik Trip Inc., a family-owned gasoline station and convenience store with over 800 locations in the upper Midwest, agreed to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/kwik-trip-inc-pay-35000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-charge

 

• Wednesday, August 20, 2025
  SEATTLE – Logic Staffing, a Washington-based staffing and recruiting agency, agreed to pay $217,500 after failing to hire a Muslim job applicant after he asked about a religious accommodation to attend Friday prayer. The company also agreed to provide other relief, resolving a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/logic-staffing-pay-217500-eeoc-religious-discrimination-retaliation-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, August 19, 2025
  RALEIGH, N.C. – Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp., a Virginia-based corporation which operates a facility in Tarheel, North Carolina, violated federal law when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee for pregnancy-related limitations, forced her to take unpaid leave and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-smithfield-fresh-meats-corp-pregnancy-discrimination

 

• Friday, August 15, 2025
  CLEVELAND – Progressive North Ridgeville, LLC, a healthcare facility in North Ridgeville, Ohio, agreed to pay $5,000 and take corrective action to resolve a race discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.The EEOC’s investigation found reasonable cause to believe the facility violated federal law by firing an employee because of her race. Such alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/progressive-north-ridgeville-settles-eeoc-race-discrimination-charge

 

• Thursday, August 14, 2025
  PHILADELPHIA—SSN Hotel Management, LLC and SSN Carlisle, LLC, doing business as American Inn Carlisle (collectively American Inn) violated federal law when they repeatedly refused to comply with the terms of a conciliation agreement in a race and retaliation discrimination case, 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-american-inn-operator-breaching-conciliation-agreement

 

• Wednesday, August 13, 2025
  CHICAGO – Mercyhealth, a health care system operating hospitals and clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin, agreed to pay more than $1 million in monetary relief to a class of employees and has offered to reinstate employees that it terminated for refusing to comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine policy.  The settlement follows an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/mercyhealth-pay-over-1-million-settle-eeoc-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-related-religious

 

• Wednesday, August 13, 2025
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Federal Operations (EEOC/OFO) recently issued three noteworthy appellate decisions clarifying the federal government’s statutory obligations under federal anti-discrimination laws and federal court precedent to provide reasonable accommodations to religious federal employees and to pregnant federal employees. These decisions signify EEOC’s renewed and ongoing commitment to timely and even-handed application of anti-discrimination law to the federal workforce.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-issues-three-significant-federal-sector-appellate-decisions-0

 

• Wednesday, August 13, 2025
  GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Criswell Chevrolet, Inc., an automobile dealership, will pay $30,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.The EEOC charged that Criswell Chevrolet violated federal law by refusing to allow a worker with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have a service dog with him at work, leaving him no choice but to leave his employment.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/criswell-chevrolet-pay-30000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-suit

 

• Monday, August 11, 2025
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sarafina Network, LLC, a management company for gas station convenience stores based in Alabama, will pay $40,000 and furnish other 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/convenience-store-management-company-settles-eeoc-disability-harassment-discrimination-and

 

• Tuesday, August 5, 2025
  MARTINEZ, Calif. – Martinez Animal Hospital agreed to provide $20,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.According to the EEOC’s investigation, the hospital subjected an employee to mandatory training which he objected to because it incorporated religious content contrary to his beliefs; he also requested to be excused from any future trainings with similar content. The EEOC investigation concluded he was terminated within days.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/martinez-animal-hospital-pay-20000-settle-eeoc-retaliation-charge

 

• Tuesday, August 5, 2025
  ATLANTA – Zoe Center for Pediatric & Adolescent Health, LLC, a provider of pediatric and adolescent health services in Columbus, Georgia, agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a disability 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/zoe-center-pediatric-adolescent-health-pay-70000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, August 4, 2025
  RALEIGH, N.C. – The Teeth Doctors, a North Carolina-based dental company, agreed to provide $61,000 to a former employee to settle a religious discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/teeth-doctors-pay-61000-resolve-eeoc-religious-discrimination-charge

 

• Monday, August 4, 2025
  BALTIMORE – Sinclair Broadcast Group, a nationwide broadcasting company, will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/sinclair-broadcast-group-pay-100000-race-discrimination-case

 

• Friday, August 1, 2025
  “I am honored to be confirmed by the Senate to serve a second term at the EEOC,” said EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas. “I look forward to continuing the historic progress this agency has made since the start of the second Trump Administration under my leadership--from securing multiple settlements with some of the world’s largest law firms to disavow DEI and embrace merit-based hiring and other employment practices, to obtaining the largest EEOC settlement to date for victims of antisemitism on behalf of Jewish employees at Columbia University.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-acting-chair-andrea-lucas-confirmed-united-states-senate-second-term

 

• Friday, August 1, 2025
  FORT WORTH, Texas – TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc., one of the largest crane service providers in North America, will pay $525,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/tnt-crane-rigging-pay-525000-eeoc-racial-harassment-and-retaliation-suit