The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has reached a settlement with Quality Egg, LLC, an Iowa egg farm where two female workers were allegedly sexually harassed by a supervisor in 2009, according to The Republic. EEOC attorney Jean Kamp said that while the details of the settlement are still being finalized, it will include unspecified [...]

On April 30, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that it had reached a settlement with Golf International Inc., an Arizona-based golf course and restaurant.  According to the EEOC’s retaliation suit filed last year, Golf International engaged in unlawful discriminatory conduct when it fired one of its employees, Jeffrey White, after he submitted [...]

In dismissing a lawsuit filed in United States District Court in Houston, Texas by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of an employee fired for requesting space to pumping breast milk at work, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes held that Title VII provisions barring pregnancy and childbirth related discrimination in the workplace do [...]

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced in a press release last week that the Commission had obtained a federal jury verdict in the amount of $51,700 in back pay, compensatory and punitive damages.  The EEOC prosecuted the suit on behalf of four family members who were fired for resisting sexual harassment at [...]

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced on January 11, 2012 that it had settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with Family Dollar Stores, a discount retailer based in Richmond, Virginia.  In a complaint filed on September 20, 2011, the EEOC alleged that Chanele Brown, a customer services representative at a Richmond Family Dollar store, [...]