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By Benjamin Morse

An assisted living facility in Florida will pay $20,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired a certified nursing assistant after learning she was pregnant, according to a federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

A resort in Guam will pay $1.4 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it gave Japanese workers better pay and working conditions than their non-Japanese peers, according to a court filing Wednesday.

By Benjamin Morse

A Maryland plant nursery agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of refusing to bring a laborer back after she took time off to deal with a pregnancy, according to court documents.

By Grace Elletson

A resort in Guam gave better wages and working conditions to Japanese workers over those of a different national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday in an employment discrimination suit in federal court.

By Benjamin Morse

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss its suit claiming a hotel operator unlawfully fired a nonbinary worker, pointing to President Donald Trump's executive order declaring that the government recognizes only two sexes.

By Patrick Hoff

An airline cargo handling services company will pay $70,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it unlawfully rejected a deaf job applicant based on outdated assumptions that he couldn't safely perform a warehouse job, according to Illinois federal court filings.

By Grace Elletson

A security company has agreed to pay $1.6 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it hired underqualified men for security officer jobs while turning away female applicants, according to a federal court filing Wednesday.

By Patrick Hoff

A California construction company agreed to pay $730,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming that supervisors harassed Hispanic employees with racist remarks and derogatory slurs, the agency told a federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A Kansas federal judge declined Monday to let Chipotle immediately appeal her decision not to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the restaurant ignored a supervisor's harassment of a Muslim worker, saying that getting the Tenth Circuit's view now wouldn't substantially advance the case.

By Benjamin Morse

A substance abuse recovery center will pay nearly $66,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability bias suit alleging it asked job applicants about their health, refused to hire someone because she had migraines and fired an alcoholic worker, according to an Ohio federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dropped a suit against a food delivery company claiming it failed to fulfill its end of a settlement resolving a former worker's disability bias charge, telling a Virginia federal court that the company paid the missing cash.

By Grace Elletson

A plastics manufacturer will pay a Black former worker $60,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought in Wisconsin federal court claiming the business fired him days after he complained that a white worker leveled racial slurs at him.

By Patrick Hoff

A mortgage and financial services company on Friday defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to hire a woman because she took pain medication, after a Washington federal judge ruled midtrial that a key piece of evidence shouldn't have been shown to jurors.

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday announced that it filed suit against The Kroger Co. in Georgia federal court for firing an employee who complained about alleged workplace discrimination stemming from a disability caused by breast cancer treatments.

By Grace Elletson

A security company stopped scheduling an officer for shifts after she repeatedly requested proper break time and a private space to pump breast milk following her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in D.C. federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a wave of new cases as the Biden administration came to an end, including suits accusing AT&T of unlawfully reassigning workers based on their weight and DHL of allowing widespread sexual harassment in a Tennessee facility. Here, Law360 takes a look at six lawsuits filed by the federal bias watchdog on Friday.

By Emily Brill

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is challenging a General Motors policy that limits disability payments to Social Security recipients, accusing GM and the United Auto Workers in a lawsuit filed Friday in Indiana federal court of violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by negotiating the policy.

By Patrick Hoff

Automobile maker FCA US LLC allowed sexual harassment to run rampant at a Detroit assembly plant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court Friday, claiming the company ignored and pushed out women who complained about male colleagues' lewd comments.

By Patrick Hoff

Sam's Club fired a food processor because she requested light-duty assignments following a car accident, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Friday in Georgia federal court, saying the retailer based its decision on company policies barring accommodations for injuries sustained outside the workplace.

By Patrick Hoff

A Wyoming trucking company will pay $124,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming its owner subjected female drivers to inappropriate and offensive sexual comments almost daily, according to federal court filings.