Albertsons, LLC, a national grocery chain, will pay $8.9 million to settle three employment discrimination lawsuits filed by the EEOC.
The suits involved claims of retaliation and race, color and national origin discrimination and harassment.
$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 charged that a Chevrolet dealership subjected a class of African Americans to different terms and conditions of employment and a hostile work environment on the basis of race.
Alleged conduct included racial epithets, such as repeated use of the N-word, and also involved management making sales team assignments based upon race, and withholding wages from one of the individuals after he complained.
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.
EEOC has sued a retail and wholesale fish market, claiming that some of the owners and managers created a hostile work environment for male employees, including physical and verbal sexual harassment and offensive and degrading comments based on race and national origin.
EEOC also alleges that employees left because of the harassment and that the man who originally complained faced retaliation. To punish him for complaining, the EEOC said, managers instructed other employees not to speak to him, yelled at him when he spoke to others, assigned him more frequently to garbage duty and sent him home when he did speak to others.
