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Nebraska Court Orders Trucking Company to Pay Deaf Driver Punitive Damages, Lost Wages After Jury Awarded Millions

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 1/12/2024

Werner Enterprises Must Also Report Its Treatment of Future Deaf Applicants - ST. LOUIS – Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha jury found in...more

EEOC Sues Omaha Hospitality Group for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/29/2022

Hotel Fired Manager After He Was Hospitalized for Depression, Federal Agency Charges - ST. LOUIS – Operators of an Omaha hotel violated federal law when they fired a general manager after being hospitalized for depression,...more

EEOC Sues Hobby Lobby for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/5/2022

Company Refused to Allow Service Dog as Reasonable Accommodation, Federal Agency Charges - ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts-and-crafts retailer, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably...more

EEOC Sues Manufacturing Companies for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/21/2021

Man Fired for Disability-Related Absences, Federal Agency Charges - CHICAGO – Grief, Inc., an international manufacturing company, and American Flange, its wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the western suburbs of...more

EEOC Sues Geisinger Health and Affiliates for Disability Discrimination and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/1/2021

Health System Failed to Reasonably Accommodate Class of Workers with Disabilities, Federal Agency Charges - PHILADELPHIA – Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation doing business as Geisinger Health System,...more

EEOC Sues Lodging Lane Hospitality for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

Hotel Manager Sexually Harassed Female Housekeeper for Months and Then Fired Her for Complaining About It, Federal Agency Charges - OXFORD, MS – Lodging Lane Hospitality, doing business as Home2 Suites and owned and...more

EEOC Sues TrueBlue, Inc., for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

Staffing Company Fired Employee with a Disability Instead of Providing Reasonable Accommodations, Federal Agency Charges - WASHINGTON- TrueBlue, Inc., a Tacoma, Washington.-based staffing company with branch offices...more

Excentia Human Services Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

Preschool Provider Refused to Employ Candidate with Cerebral Palsy, Federal Agency Charges - PHILADELPHIA – The Pai Corporation, doing business as Excentia Human Services and as Excentia and S. June Smith Center...more

EEOC Sues Suisan Company, Ltd for Racial Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

Food Distributor Condoned Racial Harassment and Retaliated Against African American Employee for Complaining, Federal Agency Charges - HONOLULU – Suisan Company, Limited (Suisan), a food distributor on the Big Island of...more

EEOC Sues Pilot Freight Services for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

International Freight Company Fired Manager Because of His Cancer, Federal Agency Charges - ATLANTA – Pilot Freight Services, Inc., an international freight shipping and logistics company based in Atlanta, unlawfully fired...more

EEOC Files Disability Lawsuits in El Paso and Ft. Worth Based on COVID Related Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

Fabens Pharmacy and 151 Coffee Took Different Approaches to COVID-19, But Both Violated the ADA, EEOC Charged - DALLAS – The EEOC filed two lawsuits in Texas courts today, alleging that a pharmacy in Fabens and a...more

EEOC Sues Presidente Supermarket for Pregnancy Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/24/2021

Company Fired Employee Because She Was Pregnant, Federal Agency Charged - MIAMI – Presidente Supermarket No. 31, Inc., a Miami location in a chain of over 30 supermarkets in Florida, violated federal law by firing an...more

EEOC Sues Stevens Transport for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/24/2021

Trucking Company Refused to Hire Applicant After Learning He Had Taken Medical Leave at a Previous Job, Federal Agency Charges - DALLAS – A refrigerated transport carrier that services major companies in need of...more

EEOC Sues McLane Northeast for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 1/4/2021

Distribution Company Refused to Interview Applicant Because She was Deaf, Federal Agency Charges - BUFFALO – McLane Northeast, a distribution company with a facility outside Baldwinsville, N.Y., violated federal law by...more

Lucy’s Cantina Royale and Restaurant Group Sued by EEOC for Firing Pregnant Employee

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/23/2020

Employer Declared Employee Was ‘Not a Good Fit’ After It Learned of Her Pregnancy, Federal Agency Charges - NEW YORK – A restaurant group that includes Lucy’s Cantina Royale, a Mexican restaurant operating in Manhattan,...more

June 2020: The Top 21 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 8/3/2020

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

New York Federal Court Approves Employees’ $1.8 Million Slice In EEOC “Onionhead” Religion Discrimination Lawsuit

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/11/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC-initiated religious discrimination suit involving an employer’s alleged imposition of “Onionhead” religious practices, a federal district court in New York recently denied the employer’s motion...more

EEOC Sues Yale New Haven Hospital for Age and Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/12/2020

Hospital Unlawfully Subjected Only Physicians Over 70 to Neuropsychological and Eye Exams, Federal Agency Charges - NEW HAVEN - Yale New Haven Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, violated...more

EEOC Sues Black Forest Décor for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/28/2019

Home Décor Business Fired Warehouse Employee for Taking Unpaid Leave It Forced Her to Use, Federal Agency Charges - LOUIS - Black Forest Décor, LLC violated federal law when it forced a worker with a disability at its...more

Target Sued by EEOC For Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/25/2018

Antioch Store Illegally Refused to Interview Candidate Because He Is Deaf, Federal Agency Charges - SAN FRANCISCO - National retailer Target Corporation violated federal law when it failed to interview a qualified job...more

Two Recent Jury Verdicts Award $6 Million and $7.97 Million To Wrongfully Terminated Employees

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 5/17/2018

Two recent verdicts from California Superior Court juries have awarded former employees $6 million and $7.9 million, respectively, in compensatory damages after a finding of wrongful termination. Martinez v. Rite Aid Corp....more

Eleventh Circuit Upholds EEOC Verdict Challenging Employer’s Policy Favoring Current Employees For Open Positions

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/29/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a cautionary tale for all employers, the Eleventh Circuit recently upheld a jury verdict of intentional discrimination in an EEOC lawsuit when an employer hired a current employee who was facing an...more

The More You Know... Or Others Think You Know: Fifth Circuit Finds Decision-maker Had Knowledge to Constitute Retaliation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/7/2017

The Fifth Circuit has issued another opinion in the continuing saga of Jackson State University and its past athletic director, Dr. Vivian Fuller—this one about retaliation against a witness. To refresh everyone’s memory: A...more

EEOC Sues IHOP Chain for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/22/2017

Chain of Franchises Subjected Employees to Sexual Harassment and Retaliation, Federal Agency Charges - LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Several franchisees of the popular IHOP restaurant chain in Nevada and New York violated federal law...more

Mining company doomed in resurrected 'mark of the beast' lawsuit

Burr & Forman on 8/8/2017

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all South Carolina employers) recently decided a religious accommodation case in which a jury awarded a former employee more than half a million dollars. The Equal...more

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