October 07, 2024
Convenience store chain Sheetz persuaded a Maryland federal judge to send to Pennsylvania a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing the company of conducting a criminal history screening that amounted to race bias, citing the case's ties to that state.
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.
June 13, 2024
Sheetz urged a Maryland federal court to send to Pennsylvania a suit lodged by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the convenience store chain's use of criminal background checks to make hiring decisions, saying that state is a more convenient location for everyone involved.
April 18, 2024
Convenience store chain Sheetz discriminated against nonwhite job applicants by basing hiring decisions on criminal history checks and refusing to let rejected job-seekers appeal those decisions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Maryland federal court.