April 23, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it will ask the Seventh Circuit to eye whether Walmart's "light-duty" policy discriminates against pregnant women, and the agency announced it will set up a public hearing to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted workplace civil rights. Here's a look at the week that was at the EEOC.
April 21, 2021
A company that runs resorts and country clubs in California and Oregon will pay $500,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the company turned a blind eye to a manager's harassment of female workers, the EEOC said Wednesday.
December 03, 2019
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has signed a $125,000 settlement in California federal court with Fairbanks Ranch Country Club Inc. in a suit claiming that a restaurant manager favored employees who acquiesced to his sexual advances at the club in Rancho Santa Fe.
November 07, 2019
A California federal judge has booted a country club's outside general counsel from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission harassment case alleging that a club manager favored employees who acceded to sexual advances, saying he can't simultaneously serve as an attorney and a witness.
September 03, 2019
A California federal court should deny a "severely flawed" bid by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to disqualify a country club's outside general counsel from a case in which it faces allegations that a manager favored employees who acceded to sexual advances, the club has argued.
August 02, 2019
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a California federal court on Friday to disqualify a lawyer for a San Diego-area country club where a manager allegedly favored employees that acceded to his sexual advances, saying he is improperly double-dipping as both an advocate and a likely witness.
August 09, 2018
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said female employees at a San Diego-area country club were subjected to ongoing sexual harassment by a manager who gave preferential treatment to those who accepted his advances, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.