Home Health Care Company Terminated Employee Because of Pregnancy, Federal Agency Charged DALLAS – Your Health Team, L.L.C. (Your Health Team) has agreed to pay $20,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the […]

Doughnut Franchise Manager Sexually Harassed Young Female Employees, Some in Their Teens, and Retaliated Against Worker Who Resisted Advances, Federal Agency Charged NEW YORK – Hillcrest Marshall, Inc., which owns multiple Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Westchester County, N.Y., will pay […]

Federal Agency Charges Sealed Air Corp., d/b/a Kevothermal LLC, Paid Female Production Supervisor Less Than Male, Imposed Language Restriction Albuquerque, NM. -Sealed Air Corporation, a protective packaging business, violated federal law by paying a female production supervisor lower wages than […]

Job Offer Rescinded After Company Learned of Applicant’s Pregnancy, Federal Agency Charged MIAMI – A Daytona Beach-based insurance brokerage firm violated federal law by rescinding a job offer to a woman because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Denied Job Based on View That All Type I Insulin-Dependent Diabetics Are ‘Fragile’ and Not Suited to Work Offshore, Federal Agency Charges NEW ORLEANS – Oilfield Instrumentation, USA, Inc., an oilfield services company, violated federal law by withdrawing a job […]

Workers Who Were Sexually Harassed and Fired for Complaining Vindicated in Court’s Ruling FRESNO, Calif. – A federal judge has ordered Z Foods, Inc., once one of the largest dried fruit processors in the United States, to pay $1,470,000 in […]

Public Can Submit Comments on Proposed Update of EEO-1 Report Through August 15, 2016 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the publication of its revised proposal to collect pay data through the Employer Information Report […]

Assistant Manager of Rantoul Store Was Fired Because of Her Gender Identity, Federal Agency Charges URBANA, Ill. – Rent-A-Center violated federal civil rights law by discharging an employee from its Rantoul, Ill., store because she is transgender, the U.S. Equal […]

Louisiana Staffing Firm Failed to Hire Six Qualified Women Because of Their Sex While Hiring Only Men, Federal Agency Charged JACKSON, Miss. – A federal judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its […]

Georgia Farm Favored Foreign Workers Over American and African-American Workers, Federal Agency Charged ATLANTA – J&R Baker Farms, located in Norman Park, Ga., will pay $205,000 to settle a national origin and race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal […]