Employer Liability Issues, Civil Rights Act, Damages

Employer Impact Guide to the Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 Term: 12 Cases That Reshaped Your Workplace, Industry, or Litigation...

Fisher Phillips on 8/29/2025

As the Supreme Court prepares for its next term to begin October 6, let’s look back on all the SCOTUS cases from the past year that impacted your workplace, industry, and litigation exposure. Here’s a quick guide to 12 times...more

On The Border to Pay $100,000 to Settle Race Harassment Case

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 11/26/2019

Employer Failed to Address Racially Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged - NEW YORK, N.Y. - On The Border Acquisitions, LLC, doing business as On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina (OTB), will pay $100,000...more

SoftPro to Pay $80,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/19/2019

Software Company Fired Employee for Perceived Disability, Federal Agency Charged - RALEIGH, N.C. - SoftPro, LLC, a Delaware software company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., will pay $80,000 and provide other relief to...more

Memorial Healthcare to Pay $74,418 to Settle EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/27/2019

Hospital Unlawfully Refused Reasonable Accommodation for Religious Belief and Rescinded Job Offer, Federal Agency Charged - DETROIT - Memorial Healthcare, which operates a hospital in Owosso, Mich., will pay $74,418 and...more

Alaska Gold Mine to Pay $690,000 to Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination and Retaliation Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/14/2019

Gold Mine Refused to Promote Female Miner Then Retaliated When She Complained, Federal Agency Charged - FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska-based Northern Star (Pogo) LLC, formerly known as Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC, will...more

A & F Fire Protection to Pay $407,500 to Settle EEOC Race Discrimination and Retaliation Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/25/2019

Employer Allowed Racially Hostile Work Environment and Punished employees for Complaining, Federal Agency Charged - NEW YORK - A & F Fire Protection Co., Inc., a fire sprinkler and fire standpipe contractor located in...more

An Employer’s Duty To Accommodate Not So-Common Religious Practices

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/22/2017

Q. An employee has requested that the company give her an accommodation due to a religious practice I have never heard of. Do we have to comply with this request? A. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects...more

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