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

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Kroger subsidiary Fred Meyer Stores, a national supermarket chain headquartered in Portland, Oregon, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate pregnant employees, retaliated against them, and fired them for requesting reasonable accommodations, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), a national shipping, logistics, and supply chain management company, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate or hire a deaf applicant because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Arc, Inc., a nonprofit providing disability support services, violated federal law when it refused to provide a pregnant employee with reasonable accommodations, forced her to take leave, and ultimately terminated her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

BOSTON — Atlantic Property Management Corporation and its affiliate, Diversified Funding, Inc., property management companies in Boston, will pay $112,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit charging disability discrimination and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

MEMPHIS — Triad National Security, LLC, a laboratory management company based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, agreed to resolve charges of discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $2.8 million and other relief, the federal agency announced today.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Montreal, Canada-headquartered Bombardier, an aircraft manufacturing and maintenance company with job sites across the United States, violated federal law when it screened out a class of job applicants based on an unlawful qualification standard, failed to accommodate their disabilities, and refused to hire job applicants with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity…

DETROIT — Davis Cartage Co., a transportation, warehousing and logistics company headquartered in Corunna, Michigan, violated federal law by allowing its president of logistics to sexually harass two female employees at its Owosso, Michigan location, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Continental Inn, a hotel group operating multiple locations in Oklahoma and Texas through various entities, including Continental Inn III, LLC, Continental Inn, LLC, and Continental Blackwell II, LLC, violated federal law when it harassed, demoted and fired a pregnant employee working at a hotel located at 4545 W. White Avenue, Blackwell, Oklahoma,…

MILWAUKEE — Crystal Ridge Ski Area, doing business as The Rock Snowpark, a winter sports park and summer events venue in Franklin, Wisconsin, will pay $20,000 and be subject to two years of monitoring by the EEOC to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency…

McALLEN, Texas — Trancasa USA, Inc., a trucking and logistics company located in Pharr, Texas with locations in south and west Texas, violated federal law when it refused to hire a class of older applicants for driver positions because of their ages, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.