NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Emmy Freedman

A company that operates Wendy's restaurants reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit claiming it shirked its legal responsibility to timely submit its workforce demographic data, a filing in Ohio federal court said.

By Emmy Freedman

A Columbus, Ohio, call center will pay $23,000 to resolve an investigation that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched into allegations that the company refused to accommodate an employee with a disability and then placed her on unpaid leave.

By Emmy Freedman

A nonprofit that provides career opportunities for individuals with disabilities agreed Friday to pay $1 million to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of failing to provide sign language interpreters and firing employees who needed to take medical leave.

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged an Illinois federal court to keep afloat its suit accusing a hog farm of allowing its president and a worker to harass a transgender female employee, saying it put forward enough details to back up its claims.

By Patrick Hoff

Two Hawaii staffing nonprofits have agreed to pay $325,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging they refused to provide deaf employees with a sign language interpreter during staff meetings, according to a filing in federal court.

By Benjamin Morse

A California school district agreed to pay $45,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation discovered reasonable cause to believe the district refused to promote a vice principal because he is Hispanic, the agency said Thursday. 

By Grace Elletson

A manufacturing company has struck a $110,000 deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to close a Pennsylvania federal court suit alleging it failed to act when two female workers complained they were regularly subjected to sexual comments and unwanted touching.

By Emmy Freedman

A raspberry farm will pay $200,000 to resolve a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of allowing a male supervisor to sexually harass male and female employees and retaliating against those who spoke up, a filing in California federal court said.

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday that it struck a deal with a housekeeping services company to put an end to an investigation into allegations that the company reprimanded workers who spoke Spanish and other languages in the workplace.

By Emmy Freedman

Security company GardaWorld reached a $37,500 deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve its lawsuit accusing the company of wrongly refusing to provide a deaf employee with a sign language interpreter despite the worker's multiple requests, a filing in Florida federal court said.

By Grace Elletson

A grocery chain has agreed to pay a job hopeful $40,000 to close a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the company discriminated against his Spiritualist Rastafarian beliefs when it declined to hire him because he refused to cut his dreadlocks.

By Patrick Hoff

Security company GardaWorld refused to provide a deaf employee with a sign language interpreter after it took over a Florida bank location despite the worker's multiple requests, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court.

By Emmy Freedman

A supply chain consulting firm urged a Tennessee federal court to toss a suit that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched accusing it and a staffing company of subjecting female employees to sexual harassment, saying the agency failed to jump through all the hurdles before filing the suit.

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that a pharmacy will pay $515,000 to resolve the agency's lawsuit accusing it of recruiting workers who have hemophilia and pressuring them to let the company take over their prescriptions.

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Walmart alerted a North Carolina federal court that they've nearly reached a deal to resolve the agency's suit accusing the retailer of firing a worker because she couldn't get a doctor's OK to work without restrictions.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in federal courts Thursday accused an Alabama hotel of firing an employee because his style didn't conform to male stereotypes and an Illinois flooring company of failing to stop employees from making homophobic remarks, in violation of federal anti-discrimination law.

By Emmy Freedman

A restaurant and brewery agreed Thursday to pay $115,000 to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of firing a Black cook for flagging verbal abuse of Black and Hispanic employees in the workplace, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

By Emmy Freedman

Sheetz urged a Maryland federal court to send to Pennsylvania a suit lodged by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the convenience store chain's use of criminal background checks to make hiring decisions, saying that state is a more convenient location for everyone involved.

By Grace Elletson

A homebuilder reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit claiming it failed to hand over its workforce demographic data, marking the latest settlement in a spate of recent EEOC suits challenging reporting requirement noncompliance.

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that a Honolulu gastropub and its human resources consultant have agreed to pay $115,000 to resolve a suit accusing the companies of allowing sexual harassment to run rampant in the restaurant.