NEWS & ANALYSIS

By Amanda Ottaway

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 20 fewer lawsuits in the five months since the second Trump administration began than it did during the same time period in 2024. Here’s a look at the cases filed so far by Trump's EEOC.

By Grace Elletson

A restaurant franchisee fired an employee after she announced she was pregnant and asked to work from home to manage her pregnancy-related nausea, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in South Dakota federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A telemarketing company agreed to pay $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it unlawfully fired a Black employee after falsely accusing her of using profanity during a customer call, according to a filing in Ohio federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

The owner of a Missouri restaurant repeatedly made lewd comments to a female manager, paid her less than a male colleague and punished her when she tried to ignore his advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A gymnastics business will pay a former coach $50,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the company's co-owner repeatedly propositioned her and other teen workers for sex, according to a Mississippi federal court filing.

By Grace Elletson

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment overlooked an older worker for promotions to more senior lab tech roles solely because of her age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A New Mexico long-term care facility allowed employees over 40 to be belittled and held to different standards than younger workers, and workers who complained faced termination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday in federal court.

By Grace Elletson

The operator of three retirement communities in the Washington, D.C., area agreed to pay $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of illegally passing over a Black worker for promotion and subsequently replacing her with a white employee.

By Grace Elletson

General Motors urged an Indiana federal judge Tuesday to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against older workers by reducing disability benefits if they also received Social Security, arguing the policy says nothing about age, allowing it to stand under high court precedent.

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shouldn't have to turn over communications with potential class members and third parties in its suit alleging Walmart used a training test to disqualify workers with disabilities, the agency told an Arkansas federal court, arguing that the information is private and protected.

By Grace Elletson

Michigan's Henry Ford health system has ignored a subpoena from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking information into a worker's bias charge, according to a federal court filing from the agency seeking an order enforcing the request.

By Patrick Hoff

A Michigan battery manufacturer and energy storage company agreed to pay $95,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing it of firing an office worker after he broke his wrist because he wasn't completely healed, according to a Thursday filing in federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A co-owner of a Mississippi blues club made sexual comments to and groped an assistant manager, and the bar fired her after she escalated complaints about his behavior, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A Black job applicant wants to take over a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionsuit accusing convenience store chain Sheetz of using a biased policy to screen out workers with criminal histories, as the EEOC seeks to exit the case because of a presidential order disavowing the disparate impact theory.

By Grace Elletson

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday allowed a transgender former hog-farm worker to carry on a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming she was sexually harassed on the job, after the agency dropped the case because it conflicted with a presidential executive order.

By Patrick Hoff

The owners of a defunct Colorado bar will pay $100,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging one of them made inappropriate sexual comments to employees, groped women and disciplined those who complained, according to a filing in federal court.

By Patrick Hoff

A building materials company fired a cement truck driver after a week of employment because she wore a skirt on the job in compliance with her religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in Florida federal court.

By Grace Elletson

A newspaper publishing company has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it canceled a job interview with an applicant after learning she was deaf and needed an interpreter.

By Grace Elletson

A pediatric healthcare system has agreed to pay a job applicant $50,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed in Georgia federal court, claiming it yanked a job offer over her egg allergy that prevented her from receiving a mandatory flu vaccine.

By Grace Elletson

Two oil and gas exploration services companies have agreed to pay nearly $700,000 to close a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming they allowed sexual comments and racial slurs in the workplace and fired workers who spoke up about the harassment.