Rather than simply promulgating rules and issuing guidance, the EEOC has increasingly taken employers to court when it believes they are running afoul of the law.

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An O’Fallon company is being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a former employee who said she was fired for complaining about sexual harassment on the job. According to the lawsuit filed Sept. 29 in the ...

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Allstate Insurance Co. agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle an age-discrimination class action lawsuit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed nearly five years ago. The settlement fund will be divided among 90 former employees whom the insurer would not ...

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AT&T Inc. was sued by a U.S. agency for allegedly discriminating against older workers through its policy of refusing to re-hire employees who retire from the company. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces anti-bias laws, filed the lawsuit Thursday ...

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A federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict finding Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp.’s decision not to hire a quadriplegic man for its customer-service call center was based on a misunderstanding and was not discriminatory. The opinion of the 8th ...

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