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IT Staffing Company Pays $50,000 To Settle EEOC Age Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 3/9/2018

Company Told Applicant "Age Will Matter," Federal Agency Says - NEWARK, N.J. --- Diverse Lynx, LLC, a Princeton, New Jersey-based IT staffing firm with offices in Princeton and Noida, India, will pay $50,000 and will...more

Desco Industries Will Pay $45,000 to Settle EEOC Retaliation Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/10/2017

Manufacturer Terminated Employee for Complaining About Race Discrimination, Federal Agency Charged - CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Desco Industries, Inc., a California corporation doing business in Sanford, N.C., will pay $45,000 to...more

Keys To Successor Liability: EEOC Discrimination Suit In Alabama

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/27/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: An Alabama district court granted a temporary staffing company’s motion to dismiss all claims in one of the EEOC’s most high-profile lawsuits asserting hiring discrimination and abuse of vulnerable workers....more

EEOC Sues East Coast Labor Solutions for Disability and National Origin Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 11/21/2016

Staffing Agency Discriminated Against Latino Workers Who Were Recruited With Promise of Good Pay, Federal Agency Charges - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Alabama temporary staffing firm violated federal law by subjecting Latino...more

Resource Employment Solutions Pays $435,000 to Settle EEOC Race Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/30/2016

Company Illegally Granted Placement Preferences to Hispanic Temps over Black Temps, Federal Agency Charged - MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Resource Employment Solutions, LLC (Resource), a temporary staffing agency headquartered in...more

State Appellate Court Considers Employer’s Duty to Conduct Criminal Background Checks

Littler on 9/16/2015

In the last few years, there has been a significant spike in the number of lawsuits challenging employer use of criminal background checks, including class action lawsuits brought under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. ...more

A Reminder for Retailers: Risks Associated With Hiring Third-Party Workers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/10/2015

As the retail sector grapples with the many challenges of a perpetually evolving economy and an increasingly mobile, independent, and dynamic workforce, it has become common practice for retailers to engage third parties to...more

The Joint Employer Doctrine Strikes Again

Sands Anderson PC on 9/2/2015

In a post last month (Serving Two Masters- Fourth Circuit Recognizes the Joint Employment Doctrine), we discussed the July 15th Fourth Circuit opinion of Butler v. Drive Auto. Indus. of Am, which made the joint employment...more

Despite settlement, EEOC continues and expands discrimination investigation

McAfee & Taft on 11/25/2014

At this point, employers have become all too familiar with the new, aggressive enforcement agenda of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agency’s systemic initiative to root out alleged discriminatory employment...more

EEOC Sues Resource Employment Solutions for Race and National Origin Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/3/2014

Staffing Agency Placed Hispanic Workers in Preference to African-American Employees, Then Retaliated Against an Employee Who Complained of Discrimination - OXFORD, Miss. - Resource Employment Solutions, LLC, a...more

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