Saks Fifth Avenue will pay $170,000 to settle a disability discrimination suit brought by EEOC, on a claim that Saks fired a makeup because of her disability, ulcerative colitis.
$175,000 settles a claim that The Kohler Company discriminated against a pregnant sales executive by firing her due to her gender and her pregnancy, less than one month prior to her delivery date.
[EEOC press release]
$35,000 settles a claim that EaglePicher Technologies fired an employee in retaliation for her complaints of sex discrimination and her participation in a 2003 discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. Because EaglePicher is in bankruptcy, the employee is expected to receive just over $12,000.
[EEOC press release]
EEOC claimed an employer discriminated against a black employee when it sent her for a drug screen when she experienced symptoms of diabetes at work, then discharged her after she passed the test.
EEOC claimed the decision to require the drug screen was based on the fact she is African American, and the discharge was because of her disability (insulin-dependent diabetes) and her race.
A loan company will pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination suit filed by the EEOC.
EEOC charged that the company refused to allow an employee to return to work unless she submitted to a medical exam that would detect viruses. The company insisted that she take the exam after it became aware that her husband had a medical condition related to Hepatitis C.
This medical exam was not job-related, according to the EEOC, because any possible safety risk to others posed by the loan clerkâs job duties would be insignificant. The EEOC further alleged that when the e...
EEOC claimed that a debt collection agency refused to hire a qualified applicant because she was blind.
The suit settled for $55,000 and other relief.
EEOC sued K-Designers on Tuesday claiming management subjected a sales manager to unlawful sex discrimination and retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment by her branch manager.
The alleged discrimination included denying the sales manager training and staff, attempting to isolate her from other employees, placing her on disability leave when she was able to work, and ultimately terminating her.
