Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Archives

EEOC sues UP over 21 employee terminations for failed vision tests

3 October 2023

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

TFI subsidiaries hit with EEOC lawsuit over gay workers

25 September 2023

In often graphic language, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued two subsidiaries of trucking conglomerate TFI International over what it said was discriminatory treatment of two gay maintenance employees who worked in Ohio.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on Sept. 15, lists TA Dedicated and TForce TL Holdings as defendants. TA Dedicated is a specialized truckload carrier, doing business as Transport America. TForce TL is an LTL...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tfi-subsidiaries-hit-with-eeoc-lawsuit-over-gay-workers

New anti-harassment guidance could raise compliance bar for trucking

1 September 2023

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WASHINGTON — New guidelines aimed at cracking down on workplace harassment could give women and...

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Texas carrier, HR company settle sex discrimination suit

29 November 2022

A Texas carrier and a human resources provider recently agreed to pay $90,000 to a former female recruiter who said she was treated differently from male employees because of her gender, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Outwest Express, a full truckload carrier, and American One, a professional services provider, agreed to the settlement to voluntarily resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge filed with the EEOC. Both companies are based in El Paso,...

Truckload carrier Stan Koch will pay $500K in sex discrimination case

9 December 2021

Stan Koch & Sons Trucking, a Minnesota-based truckload carrier, has entered into a consent decree with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle a sex discrimination suit over the use and outcomes of a physical test given to driver applicants.

The agreement requires the Golden Valley, Minnesota-based trucking company to pay $500,000 over its use of what one legal document referred to as a “physical abilities” test that the EEOC says “discriminiated against women truck drivers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckload-carrier-stan-koch-will-pay-500k-in-sex-discrimination-case

Federal watchdog sues BNSF over alleged sexual harassment

24 September 2021

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

EEOC sues 2 trucking companies, alleging disability discrimination

24 September 2021

Two trucking companies violated federal law by discriminating against people with disabilities, according to separate lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Atlanta-based Pilot Freight Services fired its international manager because of his cancer diagnosis, alleges an EEOC lawsuit filed Friday.

Pilot Freight Services is a global transportation and logistics provider with 96 locations in North America, as well as operations in Europe and Asia. Pilot has an internal...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/eeoc-sues-trucking-companies-alleging-disability-discrimination