Home Care Provider Unlawfully Asked Its Employees and Applicants for Genetic Information, Federal Agency Charged NEW YORK – BNV Home Care Agency, Inc., a provider of companionship and home care services for seniors throughout New York City, will pay $125,000, […]

Manufacturing Services Co., Screened Out Applicants After Medical Examinations Without Any Individualized Assessment, Federal Agency Charged NEW ALBANY, IND. – A Southern Indiana manufacturing services company refused to hire or provide reasonable accommodations to a class of job applicants because […]

Employee Benefits No Longer Exclude Coverage for Same-Sex Spouses MORGANTOWN, W.V. — Mon General Hospital has agreed to conciliate a charge of sex discrimination filed by its employee, Kathy McIntire, alleging that she was denied spousal medical benefits for the […]

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree with the city of Florence, Kentucky, to resolve a pregnancy and disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the department under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title […]

CHICAGO – Schenker Inc., a global leader in the field of contract logistics services, has agreed to pay $750,000 to conciliate several charges of discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursuant to Title VII of the […]

Public Commission Meeting Hears from Experts on Growing Use of Algorithms to Make Employment Decisions WASHINGTON – Big Data-the use of algorithms, “data scraping” of the internet, and other means of evaluating tens of thousands of pieces of information about […]

Oklahoma Chain Unlawfully Denied Reasonable Accommodations to Workers with Disabilities and Fired Them, Federal Agency Charges ST. LOUIS – Brown-Thompson General Partnership, dba 7-Eleven, a chain of Oklahoma convenience stores, violated federal law when it failed to provide reasonable accommodations […]

University Paid Female Full Law Professors Significantly Less Than Male Counterparts, Federal Agency Charges DENVER, Colo. – The University of Denver violated federal law by paying female employees lower wages than men, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged […]

Aid Organization Rejects Applicant Due to Intellectual Disability, Federal Agency Charges ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Global charitable organization the Salvation Army violated federal law when it refused to hire a young man with an intellectual disability for an entry-level position at […]

Belton, Mo., Eatery Refused to Interview Deaf Applicant, Federal Agency Charged ST. LOUIS — McDonald’s Corporation and McDonald’s Restaurants of Missouri will pay $56,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]