Month: August 2026

U.S. Civil Service — Independent Agencies — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

American Airlines to Pay $200,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit Following Termination of Blind Employee

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FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines, Inc., a domestic and international air carrier headquartered in Texas, will pay $200,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

Washington

WA pays $180K to fired head of youth prisons who alleged retaliation

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Washington state is settling for $180,000 with the former head of the state’s youth prison system after she alleged she was fired for raising concerns about longstanding overcrowding. Felice Upton, then assistant secretary of juvenile rehabilitation at Washington’s Department of Children, Youth and Families, was fired in April 2025, without explanation, after five years at…