NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Anne Cullen

The owners of a fine dining restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will pay $15,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the general manager consistently sexually harassed a server and fired her for rejecting his advances.

By Patrick Hoff

A Baltimore-area hospital can't defeat a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it unlawfully rescinded a nurse's job offer because she's deaf, with a Maryland federal judge saying a jury needs to weigh whether the medical center made an adequate attempt to accommodate her.

By Patrick Hoff

A security technology manufacturer will pay $100,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it demoted a hearing-impaired worker because she asked for protective equipment, according to a filing Tuesday in Maryland federal court.

By Anne Cullen

A $270,000 settlement that the PepsiCo Beverage Sales brokered to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability discrimination lawsuit secured court approval on Monday after the parties pared back several terms that a judge had found "unreasonable."

By Patrick Hoff

A Missouri waste management company will pay $200,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it violated federal civil rights law by refusing to hire female drivers, according to a filing Friday in federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

Fifteen Dunkin' franchisees and their management company will pay $250,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging they forced employees with disabilities and medical restrictions onto unpaid leave, according to a Thursday filing in Massachusetts federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

Educational publisher Pearson is close to settling a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it failed to ensure visually impaired workers could access trainings and view their benefits online, the company told a New Jersey federal court.

By Benjamin Morse

A New York federal court misapplied Second Circuit precedent and overlooked evidence about how a school district set a female superintendent's salary, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in urging reconsideration of a ruling in an Equal Pay Act suit.

By MJ Koo

A key witness' repeated no-shows for depositions are not a reason to throw out a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity suit alleging that Black and LGBTQ+ workers were harassed at an Advance Auto Parts store, a Florida magistrate judge ruled, rebuffing the company's dismissal request. 

By Grace Elletson

FedEx has agreed to pay $280,000 to close a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming it required dispatchers to return to in-person work following the COVID-19 pandemic even if they had disabilities that required remote work assignments.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. arm of a global technology company will pay $495,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it refused to hire an Indian job applicant in his 60s because of his age and national origin, according to a filing in California federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A Kansas federal judge denied a Burger King franchisee's bid to unveil the name of a minor who said she was sexually abused by her manager in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission harassment case, calling the company's objections to her continued anonymity "unfortunate and misguided."

By Grace Elletson

A home contractor business has agreed to pay $70,000 to close a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it fired a Black employee out of retaliation after he complained that his coworkers called him racial slurs on the job.

By Patrick Hoff

DHL violated federal disability bias law by firing an employee who asked for a work assignment that wouldn't exacerbate her sickle cell disease, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Georgia federal court.

By Carolyn Muyskens

Fifteen Dunkin' franchisees and their management company have been hit with a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint claiming employees with medical conditions or disabilities are forced to take unpaid leave until they can work without accommodations.

By Grace Elletson

A mail delivery contractor forced a Christian driver to quit by failing to find someone else to take on a weekend delivery route that conflicted with his Sunday church services, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Nevada federal court.

By Vin Gurrieri

A Florida poker room operator flouted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by enforcing a rigid attendance policy that pushed female staff who needed time off for pregnancy-related reasons out of their jobs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Tuesday.

By Grace Elletson

A New Mexico medical center illegally fired an employee after failing to find her a new role that would have better accommodated her leg injury that caused lasting damage, according to a suit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed Tuesday.

By Grace Elletson

Turkey producer Butterball fired an employee for missing shifts to attend chemotherapy appointments even though she requested medical leave to do so, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in a suit filed in North Carolina federal court Tuesday.

By Patrick Hoff

A nursing and rehabilitation facility can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it effectively fired an employee who requested light duty during her pregnancy, with a Maryland federal judge saying the company's dismissal bid was laden with errors.