NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Vin Gurrieri

AMC Theatres agreed to pay $56,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging that a Maryland theater employee with cerebral palsy had accommodations illegally rescinded before being forced out of a job he held for over two decades, according to a court filing Friday.

By Patrick Hoff

A home improvement company has settled a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it unlawfully fired an office manager after she refused to sign a "dominant/submissive contract" given to her by an executive, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Thursday against a Maryland-based healthcare nonprofit and one of its acute care facilities, claiming they violated disability bias law by pulling a job offer due to a candidate's heart condition.  

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it wrapped up investigations into allegations that a Reno, Nevada, electronics company and San Francisco strip club discriminated against pregnant employees, netting a total of $97,000 for the impacted women.

By Patrick Hoff

A D.C.-area catering company refused to hire a Muslim job applicant because she said she wouldn't remove her hijab if she were hired, the U.S. Equal Employment Commission alleged Wednesday in Virginia federal court.

By Vin Gurrieri

A North Carolina-based security company will pay about $65,000 to close the book on a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission probe of allegations that it illegally denied a Muslim employee time off to observe a religious holiday and subsequently fired her for being absent, the agency announced Monday.

By Patrick Hoff

A staffing firm has agreed to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it snubbed a job applicant after he disclosed that he's deaf and asked for a virtual job interview, the company told a Texas federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

An Iowa-based agricultural technology company will pay $65,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into allegations that it refused to give a worker a raise because of their sex and harassed them because of their age, the federal bias watchdog announced Thursday.

By Patrick Hoff

An auto parts manufacturer will pay $620,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it favored men for higher-paying production positions and ignored reports of sexual harassment at Tennessee facilities, according to a federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

An Arkansas federal judge trimmed some claims Wednesday from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging Walmart used a skills test to fire workers with disabilities, ruling the agency should have backed up its central bias allegations with statistical evidence.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will ask the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court's ruling that a job applicant screening company didn't have to comply with agency subpoenas, which sought information about sexual harassment questions posed to job applicants for a Colorado sheriff's office.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a California federal judge to force San Francisco to speed up compliance with an agency subpoena into a white former city employee's claims that she faced discrimination at an anti-racism seminar, calling the city's responses "piecemeal."

By Patrick Hoff

A DHL subsidiary agreed to pay $80,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the company unlawfully fired an employee who asked to change work assignments because of her sickle cell anemia, according to a Georgia federal court filing.

By Patrick Hoff

Butterball LLC will pay $230,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the poultry producer fired an employee for missing work to attend chemotherapy appointments, the parties told a North Carolina federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

An Indiana disability services provider will pay $65,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it refused to hire a deaf applicant in a housekeeping job, according to a Wednesday filing in federal court.

By Grace Elletson

Ford Motor Co. has struck a $2.3 million settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to close a harassment charge alleging that racist graffiti was commonplace in employee break rooms and bathrooms at one of its New York manufacturing facilities.

By Patrick Hoff

Auto glass repair company Safelite urged a Georgia federal court to trim the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit alleging the company refused to hire women as technicians, arguing the claims of a company-wide practice are too flimsy to stay in court.

By Kelcey Caulder

A Piggly Wiggly operator has agreed to pay $65,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the grocer forced a religious deli worker to work on the Sunday Sabbath, according to a Friday filing in Georgia federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A global airline catering company failed to take action after a female employee complained that her male mentor regularly made sexual comments about her body, according to a suit filed Friday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

By Grace Elletson

A home healthcare provider has agreed to pay $60,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business's male owner made sexual comments to staff and groped them without recourse, according to a Virginia federal court filing.