The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Sinclair Broadcast Group in federal court, alleging that it fired an employee after learning she had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.

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The operator of an IHOP restaurant in Frederick will pay a total of $125,000 to two waitresses whose boss allegedly sexually harassed them, under an agreement the company reached.

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Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $45,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2019. The Dallas-based bus carrier and the EEOC signed off on the settlement Monday in U.S. District Court in ...

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A Maryland systems administrator will receive a $150,000 settlement from a defense contractor that allegedly reassigned and later fired her rather than accommodate her chronic headaches after a car crash.

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A Baltimore-based provider of audio-video services has agreed to pay $25,000 to a sales administrator the company allegedly fired after denying her request to work remotely one day per week to accommodate her anxiety and depression. Design & Integration Inc.’s ...

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Dollar General has agreed to pay $50,000 to a former Kent County assistant store manager who a federal agency alleged was sexually harassed at work by her boss and transferred to a different location after she told management. The discount ...

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The National Institutes of Health’s security firm has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a federal agency’s claim that it systematically harassed, discriminated and retaliated against employees born in Africa. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged MVM Inc. ...

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A female bartender at Rocky Gap Casino Resort told management of being sexually harassed by a male colleague but was ignored and later reassigned to a less-trafficked bar, leaving her with no choice but to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment ...

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Baltimore County will pay $5.4 million to more than 2,000 county employees and retirees to resolve a federal age-discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced Friday. The county and the EEOC had been ...

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Baltimore County may owe more than $6 million plus interest to older employees in an age discrimination case affecting roughly 12,000 people who were improperly overcharged for their contributions to the county’s pension system. An expert for the Equal Employment Opportunity ...

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