By Grace Elletson

A Colorado-based food services company has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming its CEO discouraged hiring Black, Afghan and female applicants and that a human resources manager lost her job for opposing the executive's instructions. 

By Patrick Hoff

Chemicals company Ecolab and a water treatment subsidiary have agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging they revoked a job offer because of an applicant's bipolar depression, according to a Monday court filing.

By Grace Elletson

Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the tech giant unlawfully fired a Jewish employee after denying his requests for time off of work to observe the Sabbath.

By Patrick Hoff

Two property management companies can't avoid a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming they retracted a job offer after learning of a worker's cancer diagnosis, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday, saying the companies hadn't shown that accommodating her would've been too burdensome.

By Vin Gurrieri

A trucking company and its driver training affiliate discriminated against female students by letting some male trainers refuse to pair with them and seeking their spouses' sign-off for a male teacher to be assigned, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Texas federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A Christian senior living facility has agreed to pay $250,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business didn't do enough to stop residents from sexually harassing its female staff, according to an Arizona federal court filing.

By Patrick Hoff

A North Carolina-based education software provider will pay $150,000 to end an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission into a worker's claim that she was fired because she requested medical leave, the agency said Wednesday.

By Patrick Hoff

A Mississippi blues club will pay $35,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it fired an assistant manager after she complained that a co-owner made sexual comments and groped her, the parties told a federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

Delta Air Lines Inc. will pay nearly $17,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully revoked a job offer from a worker who was prevented from completing a physical screening because she was pregnant, according to a filing in New York federal court.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that a California medical center has agreed to pay $200,000 to wrap up an investigation into a nurse's claim that it violated disability bias law by firing her instead of letting her transfer to another role.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has pulled its Sixth Circuit appeal of a lower court's order allowing a staffing agency to exit a race discrimination suit claiming it and a packaging company unlawfully turned away Black applicants.

By Grace Elletson

A Georgia federal judge on Monday signed off on a $265,000 deal reached between a seafood wholesaler and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's sex bias suit claiming the business refused to hire women for warehouse positions.

By Patrick Hoff

An Arkansas hospital should pay $105,000, a federal jury ruled, after finding in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the agency's suit claiming a male medical assistant was unlawfully barred from assisting with childbirth.

By Patrick Hoff

A group of Texas car dealerships will pay $925,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging they did nothing to curb managers' rampant harassment of female employees and transferred or fired workers who complained, according to a federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

A Texas barber and hairstylist school has struck a deal to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it rescinded a job offer to a pregnant applicant because the school already had another pregnant teacher on staff.

By Patrick Hoff

Meat processor Smithfield Foods shouldn't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it terminated a Georgia-based senior sales employee because she was almost 60, with a federal magistrate judge recommending that jurors decide whether the company included her in layoffs because of her age.

By Patrick Hoff

A South Dakota chicken restaurant failed to take action when a Black employee complained that a supervisor had used racial slurs, made sexual comments and threatened to kill her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday that Battelle Energy Alliance will pay $5 million to resolve an agency investigation into allegations that the lab operator illegally denied Idaho-based employees religious and disability exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

By Benjamin Morse

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Tenth Circuit to reverse a Kansas federal judge's refusal to enter a $300,000 consent decree resolving claims that Walmart failed to accommodate two deaf workers, arguing he relied on personal views instead of governing approval factors.

By Vin Gurrieri

A Georgia federal magistrate judge has recommended trimming a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing a utility services provider of firing a worker who sought job adjustments following a stroke, but said a key failure to accommodate claim should go to trial.