©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP EEOC-INITIATED LITIGATION: 2043 EDITION | 27 EEOC v. Aurora Renovations and Developments, LLC d/b/a Aurora Pro Services, 1:22-cv-00490 (M.D.N.C.) Aurora Renovations agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a Title VII lawsuit in which the EEOC claimed that defendant required all employees to attend daily Christian prayer meetings led by the company’s owner and fired an employee who sought an exemption. Under the parties’ three-year Consent Decree, the company is prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against employees, must adopt and implement new anti-discrimination and retaliation policies, and provide training for its personnel. KEY CASES FILED IN FY 2023 EEOC v. TKO Construction Services, 0:23-cv-3010 (D. Minn.) According to the EEOC’s suit, a former recruiter worked for TKO, a construction staffing company, in July 2018. TKO employees informed the recruiter that the company did not hire women for construction jobs, Blacks in certain areas, and individuals over 40 years old due to client preferences, a practice TKO’s president later confirmed to the recruiter. Wanting to avoid engaging in unlawful conduct, the recruiter resigned. In its suit, the EEOC alleges that TKO failed to recruit, hire, assign or refer a class of aggrieved individuals for employment because of their sex, race, and age. The EEOC further alleges that TKO’s discriminatory classifications resulted in female and Black employees being assigned fewer hours and receiving less pay than male or white employees, respectively. EEOC v. Alliance Ground International LLC, 1:23-cv-14302 (N.D. Ill) The EEOC brought suit after a deaf applicant sought a position working in a warehouse through Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, a job training and placement not-for-profit. The EEOC alleges that despite being qualified for the position, Alliance Ground rejected the application based on its assumption that individuals who are deaf are incapable of working safely in a warehouse setting. The lawsuit further alleges that Alliance Ground maintains a policy denying employment to deaf individuals in any of its warehouses and that it destroyed large numbers of job applications in violation of record-keeping laws. EEOC v. R & G Endeavors Inc. d/b/a Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, 0:23-cv-1501 (D. Minn.) The EEOC sued R & G Endeavors, a fast-food franchisee, claiming it subjected multiple workers to harassment at its restaurant. The EEOC alleges that managers and other employers targeted a gay, African American employee when they directed homophobic and racial insults toward him. The suit also claims that female employees, some as young as fourteen, were subjected to sexual harassment through unwanted sexual touching, jokes, and propositions. In addition, R & G Endeavors also faces allegations of disability-based pay discrimination. EEOC Chicago District Office DISTRICT PROFILE Director: Diane I. Smason (Acting) Regional Attorney: Gregory M. Gochanour Merit Cases Filed in FY 2023: 13 (T-2nd) Average Days Between Determination Letter & Failure to Conciliate: 113 Average Days Between Failure to Conciliate & Complaint: 135 Average Days Between Determination Letter & Complaint: 248 IL WI MN IA SD ND Chicago
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