Settlement, Employee Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

EEOC Settlement Emphasizes Employees' Right to Discuss Salaries

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 8/15/2025

Reports of the demise of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement of traditional discrimination claims may have been exaggerated. Last week, the commission announced settlement of claims made against Sinclair...more

Give Peace a Chance – A Reminder About EEOC Mediation

Maynard Nexsen on 5/29/2025

In fiscal year 2024, the EEOC received 88,531 new charges and conducted 11,998 mediations, resulting in the resolution of 8,543 charges. These mediation success rates—reflecting a resolution of 9.6% of total charges filed and...more

EEOC Highlights Bias Protection, Announces $1.4 Million Settlement

Berkshire on 2/20/2025

On February 19, 2025, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas issued a statement re-affirming the agency’s commitment to protecting American workers from anti-American bias in employment. Upon...more

LeoPalace Resort to Pay Over $1.4 Million in EEOC National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/18/2025

GUAM – LeoPalace Guam Corporation, doing business as LeoPalace Resort, a major hotel and resort on the U.S. territory of Guam, will pay $1,412,500 and provide equitable relief to settle a national origin discrimination...more

Fly High (and Out of the EEOC’s Eye) by Updating Your Policies on Pregnancy Accommodation and Lactation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/15/2023

Everyone has been preparing for the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act. Earlier this month the EEOC gave us another reason to make sure our policies are up to snuff. Frontier Airlines and the EEOC...more

City of Hammond to Pay $80,750 to Resolve EEOC Disability Discrimination Finding

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 12/15/2020

City Improperly Subjected Employees to a Comprehensive Medical Exam, Federal Agency Charged - HAMMOND, Ind. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the City of Hammond, located in Indiana, reached a...more

Nix Hospital Settles EEOC Pregnancy Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/30/2019

Hospital Refused to Accommodate and Terminated Pregnant Worker, Federal Agency Said - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Nix Hospitals System, LLC, doing business as Nix Healthcare System, a provider of comprehensive medical services,...more

Time Warner-EEOC Settlement Provides a Cautionary Tale to Employers Who Provide Mothers More Parental Leave Than Fathers

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 9/30/2015

I recently read in the NY Times that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a charge with Time Warner, Inc., the parent company of CNN and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. where a former employee alleged that...more

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