Public Will Have 30 Days to Comment on Commission’s NPRM WASHINGTON –The Federal Register today published the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on conciliation. The EEOC is proposing to amend its procedural rules in […]

African American Pipefitter Foreman Fired Because Of His Race, Federal Agency Charged RALEIGH, N.C. – Thompson Construction Group, Inc., a heavy industrial contractor based in Sumter, S.C., will pay $115,000 and provide other relief to settle a race dis­crimination lawsuit […]

African American Pipefitter Foreman Fired Because Of His Race, Federal Agency Charged RALEIGH, N.C. – Thompson Construction Group, Inc., a heavy industrial contractor based in Sumter, S.C., will pay $115,000 and provide other relief to settle a race dis­crimination lawsuit […]

Medical Provider Failed to Provide Reasonable Accommodations to Employees, Federal Agency Charges SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, doing business as HonorHealth, which provides medical care at a number of hospitals and medical facilities in the Phoenix area, failed to […]

Medical Provider Failed to Provide Reasonable Accommodations to Employees, Federal Agency Charges SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, doing business as HonorHealth, which provides medical care at a number of hospitals and medical facilities in the Phoenix area, failed to […]

Cable Companies Denied Employees with Disabilities Reasonable Accommodations Federal Agency Charged HONOLULU, Hawaii – Oceanic Time Warner Cable LLC and Charter Communications, Inc. (Oceanic) agree to pay $800,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed […]

IHG Army Hotel at Fort McCoy Fired Employee With Epilepsy After She Had a Seizure, Federal Agency Charged MILWAUKEE – The company that operates the IHG Army Hotel at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin will pay $60,000 to settle a disability […]

Chef Fired Female Cook for Denying Him Sex, Federal Agency Charges NEW YORK – The head chef at Liberty Warehouse, a popular Brooklyn, N.Y., wedding venue, subjected female kitchen staff to sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, the U.S. Equal […]

Company Refused to Accommodate or Hire Deaf Applicant, Says Federal Agency SEATTLE — Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc., violated federal law when it failed to accommodate or hire a deaf applicant for an entry level warehouse job at its Ridgefield, Washington […]

Sandwich Shop Denied Job to Hard-of-Hearing Applicant, Federal Agency Charges INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A southern Indiana fast-food sandwich shop violated federal law by rejecting a hard-of-hearing applicant because of his hearing and resultant speech impairments according to a lawsuit filed […]