Federal Agency Investigation Found That Former Employee Was Fired for Disclosing Disability and Potential Need for AccommodationSEATTLE – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has agreed to pay $57,577 in compensatory damages and back pay and provide other injunctive […]

Maryland Health Care Provider Terminated Employee with Vision Impairments for Requesting Reasonable Accommodation on First Day of WorkBALTIMORE – All Day Medical Care Clinic, LLC, which operates five medical clinics in Maryland, violated federal law by firing its scheduling assistant […]

Federal Agency Charges Food Processing Company Fired Employee Because of AgeATLANTA – Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Smithfield Fresh Meats Sales Corporation (together, “Smithfield Foods”), which operate a food processing business that specializes in pork production, violated federal law when they […]

Federal Agency Charged Alabama Recycler Terminated Employee for Telling the Truth About Discriminatory Hiring PracticesBIRMINGHAM, Ala. –TCI of Alabama, LLC, a recycling, removal, disposal and repair company, will pay $90,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment […]

Federal Agency Charged Cleaning Service Provider Routinely Subjected Female Employees to Sexual HarassmentMILWAUKEE – The Cleaning Authority-Fox Valley, a cleaning service provider in eastern Wisconsin, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by […]

Settles Federal Charges That Industrial Manufacturing and Service Company and Its Subsidiary Subjected Applicant to Discrimination Because of His DisabilitiesBEAUMONT, Texas – The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and […]

Federal Agency Charged Company Disclosed Employee’s Confidential Medical Information and Fired Her for ComplainingJACKSON, Miss. – Headquartered in Tennessee, Tractor Supply Company, the nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer with over 2,400 stores and more than 50,000 employees, has agreed to […]

Federal Agency Charged Security Company Made Disparaging Comments and Fired 57-Year-Old Employee After Heart AttackNEW YORK – Maximum Security NYC, Inc., a security company headquartered in Queens, New York, will pay a former employee $22,500 and implement an anti-discrimination policy […]

Settles Federal Charges the Power Company’s Former General Manager Sexually Harassed and Retaliated Against His SubordinateGLASGOW, Mont. – NorVal Electric Cooperative, Inc., a utility serving Northeast Montana, agreed to pay $50,000 to a former employee and provide other injunctive relief […]

Federal Agency Charges FedEx Contractor Fired Employee Because of DisabilityATLANTA – Lubin Logistics Company, which operates as a package delivery contractor for the international shipping brand FedEx, violated federal law when it fired an employee because of his disability, the […]