NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Patrick Hoff

Bollinger Shipyards unlawfully rescinded workers' job offers because of prescription drugs they took and restricted the jobs available to people taking medication for opioid use disorder, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Mississippi federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A Long Island car dealership will pay $175,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it stood by while a male manager repeatedly groped female workers' breasts and catcalled them on the job, according to a filing in New York federal court.

By Julie Manganis

Two affiliated property management companies in Boston have agreed to pay $112,000 and comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging they revoked a job offer after learning the applicant had cancer.

By Patrick Hoff

A Virginia Walmart has refused for years to provide a deaf employee with a sign language interpreter despite having the resources and technology to do so, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday in a federal suit.

By Benjamin Morse

A sporting goods retailer unlawfully forced workers age 40 and older to give up vested employee stock ownership plan shares if they failed to work at least 1,000 hours in a year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Nevada federal court Wednesday.

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that grocery and retail chain Fred Meyer Stores violated the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act when it terminated two employees for asking for accommodations for their pregnancies.

By Patrick Hoff

A power generator manufacturer has settled a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge alleging it unlawfully refused a religious employee's request to use pronouns associated with a transgender colleague's assigned sex at birth, the commission said Wednesday.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in a Wednesday lawsuit that UPS violated federal civil rights law by offering a job to a deaf applicant and then later rescinding the role after failing to give him a sign language interpreter for his employee orientation session.

By Patrick Hoff

Meat processor Smithfield Foods must face a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it fired a senior sales employee because she was approaching 60, after a Georgia federal judge concluded that a jury should sort out the company's shifting explanations for letting her go.

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued an information technology recruiting firm over alleged discriminatory practices after the company allegedly broke off contact with an American applicant after he questioned the legality of the recruiting email designated "ONLY H1B."

By Grace Elletson

A disability services organization placed a pregnant employee on leave rather than accommodate her lifting restrictions, and then fired her when that leave ran out, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Missouri federal court.

By Vin Gurrieri

Canada-based jet manufacturer Bombardier and its subsidiary Learjet subjected prospective employees to a battery of pre-hire medical and physical examinations that unlawfully screened out people with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Arizona federal court.

By Rachel Konieczny

Two commercial cleaning providers accused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of illegally favoring Latin American applicants urged a Colorado federal judge to toss the agency's lawsuit, contending the commission failed to show the companies refused to hire non-Hispanic workers.

By Grace Elletson

A New York coffee shop chain has agreed to pay $22,500 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it fired a Muslim barista who wanted earlier shifts to accommodate daily fasts during the holy month of Ramadan.

By Patrick Hoff

A Colorado-based heavy machinery dealer fired an employee after knee surgery rather than letting her return to work with a lifting restriction, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that a lab management company agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve an agency investigation into claims that it violated federal law by refusing to grant religious and disability-based exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can ask a jury to decide whether a former utility services employee was illegally denied a telework accommodation following a stroke, a Georgia federal judge ruled while also paring certain other claims from the agency's disability discrimination suit.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a hotel group in Oklahoma federal court Monday claiming the business harassed an employee after learning she was pregnant and then fired her after calling her pregnancy a liability.

By Anne Cullen

A Florida auto dealership chain agreed to pay $112,500 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that it unlawfully required employees returning from medical leave to have no physical restrictions, according to documents filed in court Monday.

By Grace Elletson

A Houston real estate development company fired a blind engineer hours after learning of his disability and requests for specific technology that would allow him to do his job, according to a new suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.