Commercial Real Estate Firm Rescinded Job Offer After Applicant Disclosed Her PTSD and Requested an Accommodation, Federal Agency Charges ATLANTA – The Atlanta office of a commercial real estate and investment management company headquartered in Chicago violated federal law by […]

Real Estate Investment Firm Fired Three Employees Because of Pregnancy, Federal Agency Charges CAMDEN, N.J. – Friedman Realty Group, Inc., a real estate investment firm that owns and manages apartment communities, retail shopping centers, and professional office buildings, violated federal […]

Financial Loan Company Terminated Employee Because of His Transgender Status, Federal Agency Charged NEW ORLEANS – First Tower Loan, LLC, a financial loan company based in Flowood, Miss., agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal […]

Car Dealership Owner Subjected Employee to Constant Harassment for Being Gay and Having Crohn’s Disease, Federal Agency Charges CHICAGO – Chicago car dealership Evergreen Kia violated civil rights law by subjecting an employee to harassment because of his sexual orientation […]

Water Company Fired Foreman Because He Complained About Racial Slurs, Federal Agency Charges PHILADELPHIA – Aqua America, Inc., doing business as, Aqua Resources Inc., a Pennsylvania-based water company, violated federal law by subjecting black employees to a racially hostile work […]

Peru, Ill., Store Fired Employee Because of Her Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Fibromyalgia in Violation of ADA, Federal Agency Charges CHICAGO – Home Depot failed to accommodate and then fired an employee who had a disability-related emergency at its Peru, […]

In a defiant statement, ousted University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino’s lawyers said late Wednesday that the facts will “inevitably exonerate him” and that the rush to judge him was “regrettable.” Attorney Steve Pence said the university gave him […]

Grocery Store Fired Employee for Missing Work Due to Kidney Impairment, Federal Agency Charges RALEIGH, N.C. – “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store,” Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. dba Whole Foods Market, headquartered in Austin, Texas, denied a reasonable accommodation to a […]

Company Refused to Hire Male Applicants for Bartender Positions Because of Sex, Agency Charges LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – R Wings R Wild, LLC, dba Buffalo Wild Wings in Little Rock, Ark., violated federal law when it refused to hire a […]

Company Refused to Provide a Reasonable Accommodation for Rastafarian Employee’s Dreadlocks, Federal Agency Charges NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Florida-based grocer Publix Super Markets, Inc. violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee with dreadlocks he wore in accordance with his […]