Hair Salon Refused to Accommodate Stylist’s Claustrophobia, Agency Charged MIDLAND, Texas – Minnesota-based Regis Corporation, doing business as SmartStyle, will pay $60,000 in damages and back pay to former hair stylist Nora Jacquez to settle a federal disability discrimination suit, […]

Employer Permitted Racist Slurs and Graffiti, Then Fired Employees Who Complained BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Buffalo provider of metal coating violated federal law when it permitted race-based harassment of black employees by supervisors and co-workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Federal Agency Says Food Service Company Denied Long-Term Employee Accommodations, Then Fired and Failed to Rehire Her Because of Her Disability CHICAGO – American Blue Ribbons Holding, LLC, dba Legendary Baking, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee […]

Restaurant Owner Harassed Female Employees, Federal Agency Said BALTIMORE – A Baltimore restaurant, R.V. Associates Limited, doing business as Windsor Inn, will pay $200,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by […]

Poultry Producer Failed to Accommodate Workers Who Needed Time Off Due to Disability, Federal Agency Charges DECATUR, Ala. -Wayne Farms, LLC, one of the nation’s largest poultry producers, illegally discriminated against a class of employees because of their disabilities, the […]

CHICAGO – ADP, LLC, a leading payroll processing and human resource management outsourcing provider, has agreed to voluntarily resolve employment discrimination charges filed in Illinois with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. As the […]

Female Employee Sexually Harassed, Assaulted and Threatened by Supervisor, Federal Agency Charged NEW ORLEANS – Complete Maintenance, Inc., a Dallas/Fort Worth commercial janitorial service doing business in the New Orleans Metropolitan area, has agreed to pay $45,600 in damages and […]

Termination of Employee Violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Federal Agency Says ST. LOUIS — KASCO, LLC, a St. Louis company which manufactures and sells butcher supplies and meat processing equipment, violated federal law by discriminating against an […]

Rockford Store Unlawfully Fired Long-Term Employee Because of His Intellectual Disability, Federal Agency Charged ROCKFORD, Ill. – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former, long-term employee $90,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Organization Retaliated Against Employee for Filing EEOC Charge, Federal Agency Said ATLANTA – The Georgia Council for the Hearing-Impaired, Inc. (GACHI), a nonprofit organization in Decatur, Ga., that provides services for the deaf and hard of hearing, will pay $10,000 […]