By Patrick Hoff

A North Carolina soft drink bottling company has agreed to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it refused to permanently hire a probationary employee with multiple sclerosis, according to a federal court filing.

By Patrick Hoff

A multifamily property management company urged a Kentucky federal court Wednesday to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it stood by as a male maintenance worker harassed and threatened a female manager, arguing it promptly handled the situation as soon as she complained.

By Grace Elletson

A construction company illegally fired a Hispanic American for complaining that his Mexican colleagues called him slurs because he didn't speak Spanish, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Tuesday in New Mexico federal court.

By Grace Elletson

Walmart has agreed to pay $230,000 to end a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming the retail giant failed to provide a deaf job applicant with a sign language interpreter for an interview, settling the case weeks before it was set to go to trial.

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday it has filed a federal court action against a provider of candidate screening services to pry loose records for a discrimination investigation into the hiring practices of a Colorado county sheriff's office.

By Patrick Hoff

A restaurant operator has agreed to pay $270,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it failed to prevent employees and customers from making crude comments and groping female workers at an Applebee's in Alabama, according to a federal court filing.

By Patrick Hoff

A Tennessee federal judge cleared for trial a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming a hospital facilities management company unlawfully fired a blind worker, saying a jury should decide if the company properly evaluated the employee's ability to do his job.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has dropped its bid for a judicial order requiring a delivery services company to respond to an administrative subpoena in a pregnancy bias probe, telling a Louisiana federal court that the information being sought was recently produced.

By Grace Elletson

A nursing facility operator can't dodge a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it fired an employee for complaining that her boss sexually harassed her, an Illinois federal judge said Wednesday, ruling a jury needs to assess whether the business acted out of retaliation.

By Grace Elletson

Men were harmed when they were excluded from an all-women leadership development forum hosted by a Coca-Cola bottler, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a New Hampshire federal judge, urging the court to reject the company's bid to escape the agency's bias suit challenging the event.

By Patrick Hoff

A specialty materials company will pay $130,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging an employee was fired for taking time off to manage symptoms of her major depressive disorder, according to a Monday filing in Tennessee federal court.

By Grace Elletson

The Kroger Co. told a Georgia federal court Monday that it has settled a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the grocery chain ignored an employee's requests to sit on a chair at work to accommodate nerve damage caused by cancer treatments.

By Patrick Hoff

A concrete company is seeking to escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging that it rejected job applicants who took medication to treat opioid addiction, telling a West Virginia federal court the commission didn't fulfill its presuit obligations before adding it to the case.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the operators of an upscale Las Vegas restaurant have agreed to resolve a suit alleging that managers allowed rampant sexual harassment of both male and female employees to persist for years, according to a Nevada federal court filing Friday.

By Patrick Hoff

A trucking company will pay $5.5 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it refused to hire women as truck drivers for nearly a decade, according to a filing in Arizona federal court.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an electric services provider struck a $34,500 deal to resolve allegations that it discriminated against a job applicant who took prescription medication for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to Florida federal court filings.

By Grace Elletson

An aviation logistics company has agreed to shell out $55,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it required a Christian employee to work on the sabbath in violation of her religious convictions, according to a Wednesday filing in Florida federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a New Mexico federal court to force a school district to turn over several years of employee and applicant data, the latest escalation in a Native American bias investigation that the district has criticized as vague and overly broad.

By Grace Elletson

A Chicago strip club agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business imposed discriminatory appearance standards on Black women and stood by while customers touched dancers inappropriately.

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it's turning to the Tenth Circuit to challenge a trial court's rejection of a $300,000 settlement with Walmart, a deal that aimed to close a case accusing the company of discriminating against deaf employees.