Baltimore County will begin phasing in age-neutral pension contribution rates July 1 as a partial settlement of a federal age-discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit, filed in 2007, challenged the county’s practice of requiring older ...

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A Salisbury steel distribution center has agreed to pay $39,500 to a former sales clerk who alleged the company fired him when he requested two weeks of medical leave, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Equal Employment ...

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Winning the right to same-sex marriage has been seen as the defining hurdle of the battle for LGBT equality, but it’s far from the only one. With no federal law that explicitly bans companies from discriminating on the basis of ...

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PHILADELPHIA — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says for the first time it has sued challenging sexual orientation discrimination, alleging two companies’ employees were harassed because they’re gay. The EEOC Philadelphia office says in its lawsuit against Scott Medical Health ...

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled two employment discrimination lawsuits, one filed on behalf of a woman who claimed she was passed over for a job because she was in a methadone treatment program, the other filed on behalf ...

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Hanover-based food service distribution company Hearn-Kirkwood will pay $63,500 to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a former employee who alleged she was fired for complaining that she was paid less than male coworkers who performed the same work. ...

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RICHMOND, Va. – A former partner at Richmond-based LeClairRyan is accusing the firm of discriminating against her and other female attorneys in pay and promotion decisions. Michele Burke Craddock claims she was denied credit for bringing in a case that ...

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The Baltimore branch of a temporary employment agency has been accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act after it allegedly refused to hire an applicant for a laborer position because she was a recovering heroin addict. April Cox applied ...

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused the National Federation of the Blind of firing an employee who said he could not work on Saturdays for religious reasons. Joseph R. Massey II was hired for a bookkeeping position at ...

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A Salisbury-based real estate company will pay $25,000 to settle a race discrimination case brought on behalf of an African-American former employee who claimed she was bypassed for promotions because of her race and paid less than white employees who ...

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