NELP Applauds EEOC For Updating Guidance on How Employers Use Criminal Background Checks in Hiring
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 4-1 with bipartisan support today to update its decades-old guidance on how employers may use criminal background checks in hiring. The guidance promotes More...
EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance
By the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued an updated Enforcement Guidance on employer use of arrest and conviction More...
EEOC Asks for Teen Advice to Solve the Wage Gap
By: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is asking teenagers to weigh in on the heavy issues of equal pay and wage disparity. On April 26, 2012, More...
Burger King Franchisee Settles EEOC Sexual Harassment Suit
By The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Kaizen Restaurants, Inc., which operates dozens of Burger King restaurants in Oregon and Washington, has agreed to pay $150,000 and implement preventive measures to More...
EEOC Sues Dollar General Corporation For Retaliation
Dollar General, a retail store located in Marion, Ohio, violated federal law by firing two employees in retaliation for their participation in a pregnancy discrimination investigation, the U.S. Equal Employment More...
EEOC to Hold Executive Leadership Training Summit May 15-17 in Maryland
By the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its second executive leadership training summit (ELC) from May 15 to 17 at the Hyatt Regency in the More...
Court Upholds Severe Obesity as an ADA-Protected Impairment in EEOC Suit
Resources for Human Development, Inc. (RHD), doing business as Family House of Louisiana, a treatment facility for chemically dependent women and their children, will pay $125,000 to settle a disability discrimination More...
Personal Touch Home Care Of Ohio to Pay $35,000 After Firing Employee Because of Renal and Respiratory Conditions
Home health care services provider Personal Touch Home Care, based in Hamilton, Ohio, with 50 locations in 13 states, will pay $35,000 and furnish other remedial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit More...
Cadillac Jack Pays $87,200 to Settle EEOC Lawsuit
Cadillac Jack, Inc., a supplier of innovative games and systems based in Duluth, Ga., will pay $87,200 to settle a lawsuit for retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), More...
EEOC Sues AT&T for Disability Discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Thursday filed suit against AT&T Corp., a leader in telecommunication services, for failing to reasonably accommodate a long-term employee’s disability More...
