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EEOC Updates Covid-19 Technical Assistance to Cover Retaliation
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 technical assistance today to include more information about employer retaliation in pandemic-related employment situations.
The updates explain and clarify the rights of employees and job...
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Trimark Foodcraft Agrees to Pay $25,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC's) complaint, Perry is an individual with a disability who worked for Trimark through a temporary placement agency as an accounts payable costing clerk. In December 2018, Perry...
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Club Demonstration Services to Pay $50,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) suit, the employee was working for Club Demonstration Services as a sales advisor at the Costco Warehouse in Juneau when, in June 2017, her manager informed staff...
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Spike Electric and Controls, LLC to Pay $85,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) lawsuit, an outside sales representative employed by Spike Electric was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a form of cancer, and subsequently scheduled to have surgery to...
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EEOC Files Disability Lawsuits in El Paso and Ft. Worth Based on COVID Related Discrimination
Fabens Pharmacy and 151 Coffee Took Different Approaches to COVID-19, But Both Violated the ADA, EEOC Charged.
According to the EEOC’s suit against U.S. Drug Mart d/b/a Fabens Pharmacy, the pharmacy discriminated...
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EEOC Sues JDKD Enterprises for Disability Discrimination
JDKD Enterprises, LP, a Sewell-New Jersey limited partnership that owns and operates numerous McDonald’s franchises in New Jersey, violated federal law when it fired a grill cook due to his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in...