Equal Employment Opportunity Commission News

Report: Retaliation Was Most Common Form of Workplace Discrimination

Retaliation was the most common form or workplace discrimination, while Tennessee had the highest rate of workplace discrimination charges at 79 per 100,000 people, an examination of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data shows. The EEOC data showed Arkansas (77 charges …

Nebraska Jury Awards $335K to Deaf Truck Driver in Disability Discrimination Case

Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on disability discrimination claims, a federal …

US Agency Suing Tesla for Race Bias Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit

A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc’s TSLA.O bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker’s flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a …

Hotel Owners Agree to Settle Disability Discrimination Case for $100K

The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the …

Tesla Sued by US Agency over Alleged Harassment of Black Factory Workers

A U.S. civil rights agency sued Tesla Inc. on Thursday, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in the lawsuit filed …

Walmart Sued by US Agency over Test that Screened Out Disabled Workers

The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Wednesday that it had sued Walmart Inc. over allegations it fired hourly workers with disabilities who could not pass a computer-based test. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the …

11th Circuit Panel Affirms Dismissal of Discrimination Suit by White TV Weatherman

The use of a form that identified an employee’s race as part of a company’s termination process was not evidence that the employer discriminated against him because he is white, a divided panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals …

Tutoring Firm Settles EEOC’s First Bias Lawsuit Involving AI Software

A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency’s novel lawsuit claiming it used hiring software powered by artificial intelligence to illegally weed out older job applicants. The 2022 lawsuit against iTutorGroup Inc. was the first by …

Facebook Job Ads Illegally Discriminate, Female Truckers Say

Meta Platforms Inc. “routinely discriminates” in steering job ads to specific age and gender groups on its Facebook platform, a women’s truckers organization alleged in a civil rights complaint. “Facebook’s algorithm regularly acts like recruiters in the 1960s (and even …

United Airlines to Pay Buddhist Pilot $305K to Settle Religious Discrimination Claim

United Airlines will pay $305,000 to a Buddhist pilot and will provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency’s New York office announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, …