Mount Olive Nursing Home Unlawfully Fired Disabled Employee, Agency Charged RALEIGH, NC – SunBridge Regency-North Carolina, Inc., a North Carolina corporation that operates a nursing home in Mount Olive, N.C., will pay $35,000 and furnish other relief to settle a […]

Judge Also Refuses to Admit Evidence Sony Collected in Violation of HIPAA CHICAGO – U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel of the Northern District of Illinois has issued an order denying a motion by Sony for a pre-trial judgment in […]

Nursing Home Rescinded Offer to Hire Qualified Applicant Because He Is Deaf, Federal Agency Charged NEWARK, N.J. – A Mendham, N.J., nursing home will pay $75,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the […]

Laborers Kept in Debt Bondage, Housed in Unsanitary Facilities, Threatened, and Denied Adequate Food and Water, Federal Agency Charged LOS ANGELES – U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi in Hawaii has approved settlements between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]

Longview Fast Food Restaurant Refused to Hire HIV-Positive Applicant Despite His Qualifications, Federal Agency Charged TYLER, Texas – Famous Chicken of Shreveport, L.L.C. a Popeye’s Chicken franchisee, has agreed to pay $25,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a […]

Company to Institute Training and Procedures to Prevent Future Discrimination CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Cheyenne company Superior Electric, Inc. will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Managers Harassed Four Female Workers, Including Two Teens, and Forced Some Women to Quit, Federal Agency Charged ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – JEC Enterprises, Inc., which owns and operates four McDonald’s franchises in Albuquerque, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to […]

Company Now Known as RockTenn CP, LLC Fired Employee Because of His Disability, Federal Agency Charged FLORENCE, S.C. – RockTenn CP, LLC formerly known as Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, will pay $20,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a discrimination lawsuit […]

Farmworker Women Subjected to Rape, Coerced Sex, Groping and Verbal Abuse, Federal Agency Charges in Two Separate Lawsuits MIAMI – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed two separate sexual harassment lawsuits yesterday afternoon — one against Windmill Farms […]

Reversing summary judgment for a county employer on the religious discrimination claim of an employee who was fired after she refused to work on a Sunday so she could attend the ground-breaking of a new church, a divided panel of […]