October 13, 2022
Kroger and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court they had reached a deal to end a suit claiming the grocery chain illegally fired two Christian workers for refusing to wear a heart symbol they perceived to be pro-LGBTQ.
June 24, 2022
Kroger must face a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of illegally firing two Christian workers for not wearing a symbol they believed was pro-LGBTQ, after an Arkansas federal judge said it's for a jury to decide whether accommodating the employees would have been too difficult.
February 17, 2022
Kroger urged a federal court to deny the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's motion for an early victory in its lawsuit claiming two Christian workers were illegally fired for not wearing an apron symbol they believed was pro-LGBTQ, calling this contention "irrational" since the symbol was unrelated to the LGBTQ community.
January 19, 2022
Grocery chain Kroger violated federal law by forcing two Christian workers to wear a symbol they saw as pro-LGBTQ, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court, saying that letting them remove or cover the symbol would have been an easy fix.
June 22, 2021
The EEOC will likely throw its weight around in the courtroom, while legal fights over religious freedom, LGBTQ issues and gender pay gaps play out at both the federal and state levels. Here, Law360 looks at the litigation hotspots discrimination lawyers should be keeping an eye on in the second half of 2021.
November 24, 2020
Kroger Co. is urging a federal judge to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought on behalf of two Christian workers who alleged the grocery chain put a symbol on their aprons in support of the LGBTQ community, saying the logo has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
September 14, 2020
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday lodged a complaint against the Kroger Co., claiming a store in Arkansas illegally disciplined and fired a pair of Christian workers who refused to wear company aprons that featured rainbow hearts in support of the LGBTQ community.