NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Grace Elletson

A dental laboratory and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a Florida federal judge Wednesday to approve a $30,000 settlement in a suit claiming the business fired an office assistant because she was pregnant.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has struck a deal with the bankrupt successor of a staffing firm that allegedly failed to follow through on all the payments in a $276,000 agreement resolving a claim that the company forbade employees from speaking Spanish.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge seemed inclined Tuesday to enforce the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's subpoena for the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish employees' contact information, a request that has alarmed the school and several advocacy groups, expressing doubt that the information would be used for nefarious purposes.

By Vin Gurrieri

A comedy club in Louisville, Kentucky, will pay nearly $373,000 to close the book on a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into whether a manager sexually harassed female employees, the agency said Tuesday.

By Grace Elletson

A Mississippi steakhouse unlawfully fired a worker soon after learning she had a health condition that caused seizures, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A sports gear company will pay $350,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing it of favoring younger employees during an organizational restructure and fired a worker in his 50s because he complained, the commission said Monday.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday that a Jewish community center in Manhattan has agreed to pay $100,200 to wrap up an EEOC investigation into allegations that it wouldn't give a Christian employee time off to attend religious services.

By Patrick Hoff

Trucking company Schneider National rescinded a job offer rather than let a truck driver with post-traumatic stress disorder have her service dog at work, in violation of federal disability law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Maryland federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an infusion therapy provider have reached a tentative deal to end the agency's suit accusing the company of unlawfully refusing a pregnant nurse's requests for shorter commutes, according to a filing Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A Kentucky transportation company has agreed to pay $95,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found support for claims that it ignored a male employee's sexual harassment of female workers, the agency said Tuesday.

By Grace Elletson

A hospital gift shop company has agreed to pay $600,000 to end a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming it asked questions on its job applications that illegally screened out workers with disabilities.

By Patrick Hoff

A Florida restaurant will pay $65,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it fired a female server after she complained that an owner was propositioning and sexually harassing her daily, according to a federal court filing.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday accused a Michigan home hospice provider of discriminating against a Black nursing assistant by assigning her fewer hours and less plum assignments than her white colleagues.

By Grace Elletson

A New York federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a school district paid a female superintendent less than her male predecessors, after highlighting evidence that the female leader's benefits package and salary trailed her male counterparts.

By Anne Cullen

A New Mexico nursing care facility has agreed to pay $75,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging a supervisor bullied older, Spanish-speaking workers and then sacked them for complaining, according to deal documents filed Tuesday.

By Patrick Hoff

A North Carolina federal judge refused to greenlight a $270,000 settlement that would end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing PepsiCo of unlawfully firing a blind employee, saying parts of the agreement are beyond the scope of the case.

By Grace Elletson

An Oklahoma federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the owner of a sunroom company sexually harassed female employees, calling the company's attacks on the veracity of the EEOC's allegations premature.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has struck a $150,000 deal with a Raleigh, North Carolina, healthcare provider it accused of illegally firing a remote Christian employee who refused COVID-19 vaccination on religious grounds.

By Grace Elletson

An Oklahoma federal judge signed off on a $90,000 deal on Thursday to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a urology practice placed a pregnant employee on unpaid leave rather than allow her to sit on the job.

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday it has sued bottling company Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast alleging it bucked federal civil rights law by inviting only female employees to a company-sponsored retreat at a casino two years ago.