Employers
ITS Logistics, a third-party logistics company based in Reno, Nevada, has agreed to pay more than $396,000 to resolve a religious harassment charge brought by a former employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Monday, Oct. 26.
The resolution came through the EEOC’s conciliation process, a voluntary, pre-litigation settlement step, rather than through a lawsuit or a court ruling. No court has made a finding of liability. The underlying charge was filed in 2025.
What the agency found
According to the EEOC, its investigation found reasonable cause to believe that, soon after he was hired, an employee at ITS Logistics was harassed by co-workers and managers because of his Jewish identity. The agency said the conduct included frequent comments based on offensive stereotypes about Jewish people, as well as antisemitic posts to a work group chat that both co-workers and managers received and took part in.
The EEOC said the employee reported the harassment to managers but that there was no corrective response. Given management’s involvement, his reports and the lack of any response, the agency said, the employee concluded that further reporting would be futile and resigned.
A reasonable-cause determination is the agency’s conclusion from its investigation, not a judgment by a court. The EEOC said that an employer tolerating such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination, including harassment, because of an individual’s religion.
Terms of the agreement
Under the conciliation agreement, ITS Logistics will pay the former employee $96,135.54 in back pay and $300,000 in compensatory damages, for a total of $396,135.54.
The company also agreed to injunctive relief. According to the EEOC, it will update its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies and procedures, create a recordkeeping system to track complaints, provide training to employees, supervisors, managers and human resources staff, and report regularly to the EEOC on its compliance for three years.
“This case underscores the importance of employers taking swift action to address religious harassment,” EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said in the release.
Christopher Green, director of the EEOC’s San Francisco District, said the company had resolved the matter through conciliation and had committed to measures to prevent and correct harassment.
The former employee, who was not named, said in the release that the harassment came at his first job out of college.
The company's response
Scott Pruneau, a company representative, said in the EEOC’s release that “any type of discriminatory comments or harassment based on an employee’s religious beliefs is not tolerated in our workplace,” and that the company appreciated the EEOC’s involvement.
The release does not say how many people ITS Logistics employs, where in its operations the employee worked, or what his job was.
Why it matters for workers and employers
The agency’s account centers on two points: managers’ involvement in the conduct and the absence of a response to the employee’s internal complaints. The EEOC cited both as reasons the worker concluded that further reporting would be futile before he resigned.
For workers, the resolution shows that harassment complaints can be pursued through an EEOC charge, and that conciliation can produce both money for the individual and required changes at the employer, including complaint tracking and training, without a lawsuit. For employers, the three-year reporting requirement means the agency will monitor compliance well after the payment is made.
The EEOC said that since January 2025 it has taken more than 40 public actions involving religious discrimination at work, including lawsuits, consent decrees and public conciliations. Its San Francisco District Office, which handled the charge, covers Northern California, Northern Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana.
Sources
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “Nevada Logistics Company to Pay Over $396,000 to Resolve EEOC Religious Harassment Charge,” October 26, 2026. https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/nevada-logistics-company-pay-over-396000-resolve-eeoc-religious-harassment-charge
Featured photo: The downtown Reno, Nevada, skyline seen beyond sagebrush and a wooden footbridge, photographed Nov. 1, 2019. Representative image; not ITS Logistics or its workplace. Photo: Trevor Bexon, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Cropped from the original.
