October 15, 2014
A Nebraska federal court overseeing a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit that accused JBS USA LLC of failing to accommodate Muslim workers' prayer requests already ruled that the agency efforts to conciliate before suing the meat packager were adequate, the EEOC said Tuesday.
August 25, 2014
A Nebraska federal judge on Monday denied the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and JBS USA LLC ex-employees' joint motion for a settlement conference with the meat-packaging company accused of failing to accommodate Muslim employees' prayer requests, saying JBS didn't seem willing to participate.
July 11, 2014
JBS USA LLC asked a Nebraska federal judge on Thursday to nix the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's remaining claims in a suit accusing the meat-packaging company of failing to accommodate Muslim workers' prayer requests, arguing the agency had failed to engage in good faith conciliation.
January 27, 2014
A Nebraska federal judge on Monday denied the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid for a new trial in a religious bias suit against JBS USA LLC over its alleged failure to accommodate prayer breaks for Muslim workers, ruling the agency failed to raise new grounds to justify granting its motion.
October 18, 2013
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lost the first phase of its religious bias suit against JBS USA LLC concerning prayer breaks for Muslim workers, when a Nebraska federal judge ruled last week that making the accommodations JBS was faulted for not providing would cause undue hardship.
April 15, 2013
A Nebraska federal judge on Friday allowed the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to proceed with allegations that JBS USA LLC refused to accommodate Somali Muslim workers during Ramadan, but nixed claims that the meatpacking giant had a practice of unlawful terminations and retaliation.