August 16, 2024
A hog farm can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it allowed a transgender worker to be harassed out of a job, the Illinois federal judge scolding the business Friday for attempting to delay the case by falsely asserting the complaint lacked detail.
June 28, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged an Illinois federal court to keep afloat its suit accusing a hog farm of allowing its president and a worker to harass a transgender female employee, saying it put forward enough details to back up its claims.
June 21, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's current docket includes several harassment cases alleging managers not only failed to stop misconduct but joined in on it, and experts say these suits may indicate that higher-ups' misbehavior is a focus area for the workplace bias watchdog. Here, Law360 takes a look at four lawsuits filed by the EEOC that discrimination attorneys should keep an eye on in the latter half of this year.
March 28, 2024
An Illinois hog farm failed to step in when a worker exposed his genitals and made explicit sexual comments to a transgender female employee, prompting her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.