Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. will pay $245,000 and change how it handles pregnancy accommodation requests to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging that it refused to accommodate a pregnant worker at its Tar Heel, North Carolina, pork processing facility and then fired her, the U.S.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has rescinded its 2012 guidance on how employers may consider job applicants' and workers' arrest and conviction records, the agency announced Thursday, Oct. 29. The commission voted on Wednesday, Oct.
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 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed two new federal disability discrimination lawsuits in two days, accusing BNSF Railway and Solera Holdings of firing workers with disabilities instead of giving them a fair chance to do their jobs.
Instacart will pay $5 million to settle federal allegations that it made it harder for U.S. workers to apply for jobs the company was filling through the green card sponsorship process, the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Reynolds IGA Foodliner, a Piggly Wiggly franchisee, will pay $65,000 under a two-year consent decree to resolve an EEOC suit alleging it fired a Hazlehurst deli clerk who asked for Sundays off to observe her Sabbath.
