April 17, 2023
A steakhouse and catering company has agreed to shell out $55,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging that the business fired a hostess after refusing to let her sit on a stool to deal with pregnancy-related pain.
December 21, 2022
A Kansas federal judge ruled Wednesday that a former host at a Wichita restaurant did enough to secure another job after she was fired, siding with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its pregnancy bias suit against the eatery.
September 29, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit in Kansas federal court against a Wichita chophouse that fired a pregnant hostess after she had asked to sit on a stool between serving customers and an owner commented that it "did not look good."