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barber and hairstylist school has struck a deal to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it rescinded a job offer to a pregnant applicant because the school already had another pregnant teacher on staff.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

By Grace Elletson

A Christian senior living facility has agreed to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business did not do enough to protect its female staff members from sexual harassment by its residents, resulting in an employee being assaulted by a serial harasser.

By Emily Brill

A Florida pizza chain will pay $27,500 to settle a discrimination lawsuit that accused its proprietor of making vulgar comments about female employees, according to an order issued by a Florida federal judge.

By Vin Gurrieri

A children's toys and home products manufacturer unlawfully fired a pregnant assembly worker after improperly assessing negative attendance points for absences related to her pregnancy and mental health conditions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday in Ohio federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said ExxonMobil held onto critical information until the last minute in a lawsuit alleging the company didn't properly handle the discovery of nooses in an oil refinery complex, urging a Louisiana federal court to bar the company from using the eleventh-hour materials.

By Crystal Owens

A New Mexico school board has said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't hold any authority to enforce subpoenas seeking seven years of applicant and employment data to investigate an alleged race discrimination charge against the board, telling a district court its suit against the federal agency must be first resolved.

By Grace Elletson

Senior employees at a home builder routinely talked about how they equated pregnancy with a lack of professional commitment before firing a pregnant worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday.

By Kelcey Caulder

Auto glass repair company Safelite violated federal law by refusing to hire women as technicians even when they scored higher than their male counterparts on required job assessments, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit.