Failure to Intervene Against Harassing Customer Created Hostile Work Environment, EEOC Charged CHICAGO – A federal jury has awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages to a former employee of Costco Wholesale, Inc. who was harassed and stalked by a Costco customer, […]

Federal Agency Says Worker was Twice Sued by Former Employer in Retaliation for Her Opposing Discrimination and Filing an EEOC Charge HOUSTON – Carolina Creek Christian Camp, Inc. (CCCC), which operates a facility 90 miles northeast of Houston that is […]

Restaurant Denied Deaf Employee Appropriate Training and Accommodation, Then Fired Him, Says Federal Agency SEATTLE, Wash. – Restaurant giant The Cheesecake Factory, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary violated federal law when it failed to provide an effective accommodation for […]

Black Employee Subjected to Racial Epithets Almost Daily, Federal Agency Charges MOUNT AIRY, N.C. – Hiatt & Mason Enterprises, Inc., a structural steel erection services company, violated federal law when it subjected a black employee to a racially hostile work […]

Company Rejected Five African-Americans for Promotion Based on Race, Federal Agency Charged BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that a federal judge has entered a $150,000 consent decree that resolves its race discrimination lawsuit […]

HOUSTON – Rudy L. Sustaita, a 26-year attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has been appointed Regional Attorney of the agency’s Houston District Office, which also covers Louisiana, the agency announced today. A graduate of the University […]

ATLANTA – Antonette Sewell has been appointed as regional attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Atlanta District effective Dec. 12, the agency announced today. Sewell has been a civil rights litigator in both New York and Georgia […]

Nightshift Janitors Left Vulnerable to Supervisor’s Abuse, Federal Agency Charges OAKLAND, Calif. – Goodwill Industries of the East Bay Area and affiliate Calidad Industries violated federal law by allowing sexual harassment and disability discrimination against nightshift janitors contracted to clean […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Marsha Rucker, who has served as an attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for eight years, has been appointed regional attorney for EEOC’s Birmingham District Office effective Dec. 1, the federal agency announced today. […]

Giant Retailer Unlawfully Denied Accommodations to and Harassed Cancer Survivor at Illinois Store, Federal Agency Charged CHICAGO – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former employee $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]