NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Grace Elletson

A building supply company agreed to a $26,000 deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit alleging the business fired a 67-year-old worker out of age and disability discrimination after claiming he arrived to work with a limp, the agency said.

By Grace Elletson

A pair of seafood restaurants will pay $34,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sex harassment suit claiming the businesses allowed a male employee to continue working with a female colleague even after he had been arrested for exposing himself to her.

By Grace Elletson

Two Taco Bell franchisees agreed to pay $100,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming they did not act swiftly enough to remove a supervisor who sexually harassed underage workers, according to a filing Tuesday in Michigan federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A Jack in the Box franchisee will pay $50,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment suit claiming the business stood by while a male general manager masturbated in front of female workers and groped them on the job.

By Vin Gurrieri

A McDonald's franchisee in Oklahoma has agreed to pay $80,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of failing to remove a manager who sexually harassed and threatened to rape a female teenage employee, according to an Oklahoma federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

A freight delivery company has agreed to pay $47,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit that said it yanked a job offer from a deaf applicant after she asked for a sign language interpreter.

By Grace Elletson

A Virginia food hall has agreed to pay $54,000 to resolve an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business's owner created a hostile work environment by using a racial slur and making racist comments to a Black general manager.

By Grace Elletson

A Subway franchisee agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business didn't have the proper safeguards in place to prevent abuse when a teen worker was sexually assaulted on the job by his boss.

By Grace Elletson

A Jewish law student association and other groups urged a federal judge to let them step in and oppose the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's efforts to craft a "registry" of Jewish students and staff at the University of Pennsylvania, saying the agency's information push evokes "a terrifying history."

By Anne Cullen

A Motel 6 operator in Florida agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging a worker was forced out of her job because of disability discrimination, the agency announced Tuesday.

By Grace Elletson

An Illinois federal judge recommended that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission be allowed to conduct site visits at a packaging company the agency is probing for possible hiring bias, rejecting the company's claim that the visits would be too burdensome.

By Corey Rothauser

An Austin, Texas-based staffing nonprofit will pay $160,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it fired an employee after she requested unpaid medical leave to attend a mental health treatment program. 

By Grace Elletson

KFC will pay $200,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into claims that the company ignored sexual harassment at a Florida restaurant, the EEOC said Tuesday.

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has struck deals with two employers worth a combined $135,000 that ended probes into whether pregnant workers were illegally denied accommodations, and asked the White House to sign off on its rollback of a Biden-era workplace harassment guidance. Here, Law360 recaps four notable EEOC developments from 2025's final week.

By Benjamin Morse

Casinos in Maryland, including Caesars Entertainment, violated federal disability bias law in firing a dealer after he had a heart attack at work that required surgery and subsequent workplace accommodations, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has alleged in a complaint in federal court.

By Grace Elletson

U.S. Steel placed a machine operator on leave when she sought an accommodation for her pregnancy, and then gave her jobs that paid less or violated her restrictions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Minnesota federal court.

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a loan company have asked a Georgia federal court to approve a $750,000 deal to end a suit alleging it fired an employee who asked for time off to recover from two major heart attacks.

By Anne Cullen

An Illinois-based hospital system bucked civil rights law when it denied a Christian nurse's request for an exemption to its COVID-19 vaccination policy and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told a federal court.

By Anne Cullen

An Arkansas federal judge agreed to cut the constructive discharge allegation from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging two doctors at an Arkansas hospital refused to let a male medical assistant help with childbirth, noting that the worker assisted with other deliveries.

By Grace Elletson

A trucking company can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it turned away a job seeker because he's deaf, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, pointing to evidence that a recruiter said the business wouldn't accept an employee who used sign language.