Archive for the ‘EEOC’ Category

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public meeting on Nov. 16, at which it will draft a final rule on determining what constitutes a "reasonable factor other than age" in age discrimination legal actions. The determination is to clarify matters from a 2005 Supreme Court decision, Meachem v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, [...]

Sears, Roebuck & Co., one  of the nation’s largest retailers, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief  to settle a race, sex and age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by  the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency has announced. The EEOC charged that Sears had subjected an African-American female employee over the age [...]

Telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to cease discriminatory policies to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that AT&T, Inc. and a number of its subsidiaries discriminated against a class of retired AT&T workers by denying them the opportunity for reemployment [...]

With its recent announcement that it had entered into a National Mediation Agreement with Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is now helping more than 200 firms nationwide resolve disputes with their employees without going to court. The EEOC is charged with enforcing the harassment and discrimination statutes of [...]

In the first week of its 2011-2012 session, the United States Supreme Court heard a case involving a church and its actions in terminating an employee who took disability leave and was asked to resign as a result. When she refused to resign and threatened to sue, she was terminated. The teacher, Cheryl Perich, took [...]

A recent court case sets a precedent that an employer who fails to return phone calls from employees on FMLA leave may be liable for FMLA retaliation claims. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows qualifying employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to deal with their own health issues or [...]

As part of President Obama's American Jobs Act, the Fair Employment Opportunity Act would add unemployed individuals who are actively seeking work as a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, giving the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the power to investigate discrimination complaints and levy fines, penalties and injunctive relief (as well [...]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing American Samoa, alleging the U.S. territorial government discriminates against older workers. According to the complaint filed Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2011) in Hawaii, the director of the territory's human resources department told employees 50 and older in 2009 that they should retire so younger (read: cheaper) workers could [...]

A New York federal court not only recently dismissed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), but it also accused the agency of suing first and gathering the details later. “J’accuse!” is not enough in court. Evidence is required," the court opinion stated. In EEOC v. Bloomberg L.P., Judge Loretta [...]

A U.S. District Judge in San Francisco has set Oct. 28 as the date that former Wal-Mart class-action plaintiffs must file new lawsuits, but the order applies only to those women who previously had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and received permission to sue for gender discrimination. "We believe the [...]