EEOC

Wyoming trucking company pays $124,000 to settle sexual harassment suit

A family-owned Wyoming trucking company has agreed to pay $124,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations that the company’s owner had sexually harassed two female truck drivers over several years.

As part of the agreement reached Wednesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Norman Waller, owner of Waller’s Trucking of Big Piney, Wyoming, must issue a letter of apology to his victims, revise the carrier’s anti-harassment and anti-retaliation policies, post a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wyoming-trucking-company-pays-124000-to-settle-sexual-harassment-suit

Wheeler Trucking to pay $65K to settle EEOC religious discrimination suit

Wheeler Trucking, an automotive hauling company based in Michigan, will pay $65,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after a Torah-observant employee reported religious discrimination.

Charles R. Lynch III, who practices Torah-observant Christianity, worked for Wheeler from 2016 until 2021 at the company’s Sheffield, Ohio, location. Lynch, who the September lawsuit says identifies as Middle Eastern and of Israeli descent, was subjected to racial...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wheeler-trucking-to-pay-65k-to-settle-eeoc-religious-discrimination-suit

EEOC sues UP over 21 employee terminations for failed vision tests

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Union Pacific over allegedly firing 21 train conductors and locomotive engineers who failed a company-administered vision test.

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota last Friday, alleges that UP (NYSE: UNP) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because the railroad terminated employment on the basis of disability and used an unlawful qualification in screening those 21...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/eeoc-sues-up-over-21-employee-terminations-for-failed-vision-tests

EEOC sues flatbed carrier Gypsum Express for sex discrimination

Rear view of a Gypsum Express tractor trailer on the highway.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday filed suit against Gypsum Express Ltd., a flatbed and bulk motor carrier headquartered in Baldwinsville, New York, for sex discrimination in hiring, as well as retaliation and other charges involving two former recruiters. 

Gypsum Express has more than 650 tractors, 11 terminals in 10 states and more than 750 employees. It also provides van, truckload and refrigerated service through its Gypsum Logistics brokerage unit.

In its lawsuit,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/eeoc-sues-flatbed-carrier-gypsum-express-for-sex-discrimination

Federal watchdog sues BNSF over alleged sexual harassment

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of female employees alleging a sexually hostile work environment at BNSF’s rail yard in Alliance, Nebraska.

The employees were subjected to an almost daily barrage of harassing conduct and comments from male co-workers and supervisors over many years, according to the lawsuit and EEOC. When the employees complained about sexual and derogatory comments, as well as slurs, graffiti, and sexually suggestive and nude...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-watchdog-sues-bnsf-over-alleged-sexual-harassment

Court enforces ADA’s pre-suit exhaustion rules

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (which has jurisdiction over Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) recently addressed whether an employee could pursue a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) when the claim was not included in the original administrative charge filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and the subsequent amendment to add the required charge was untimely. The Third Circuit ruled that employees must still exhaust...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/court-enforces-adas-pre-suit-exhaustion-rules

Beards, tattoos, facial piercings! UPS gets hip at 113

Well into its second century, UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) has gone avant-garde, at least for its standards.

The Atlanta-based transport and logistics giant has eased up on its legendarily strict policies regarding employee appearance, including rules that have long governed employees with customer-facing jobs such as delivery drivers. Gone are the restrictions on beards and what the company, in a prior era, would have considered unacceptable hairstyles. In are Afros, braids, tattoos and facial...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/beards-tattoos-facial-piercings-ups-gets-hip-at-113

Walmart settles $20 million sex bias lawsuit

Walmart Inc. to pay $20 million to settle EEOC lawsuit

A federal judge has approved Walmart Inc.’s $20 million settlement of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging its physical ability testing (PAT) for grocery order filler positions discriminated against female applicants.

U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell signed off on the settlement more than a month after the EEOC filed its lawsuit against Walmart (NYSE: WMT) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

The EEOC claimed in its suit that Walmart’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/walmart-settles-20-million-sex-bias-lawsuit