The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has a reached a $31,000 settlement with Protocall Communications Inc. to resolve claims that the Laurel-based marketing company discriminated against an employee with dyslexia, the federal agency announced Tuesday. Protocall Communications brought in the ...

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Stanley Black & Decker has reached a $140,000 settlement to resolve allegations from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the company violated federal law for firing an employee in its Towson facility who was taking time off for cancer ...

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A federal agency alleges a Catonsville-based company violated federal law when it fired a director because she believed a subordinate was being subjected to disability-based discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in a lawsuit According to the suit, ...

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A Baltimore County private school settled a lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the federal agency alleged the school did not renew the contract of its softball coach because he is a man. The Park School settled ...

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After nearly four years of litigation, including a trip to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit filed by a federal agency alleging gender-based pay discrimination. According to online court records, the ...

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A federal agency is asking the U.S. District Court to stay several pending cases in Maryland because of the partial federal government shutdown. According to several online court records in at least four lawsuits filed in federal court in the ...

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reached a $300,000 settlement in a racial discrimination lawsuit against Maritime Autowash, the federal agency announced Wednesday. In a lawsuit filed in August 2017, the EEOC alleged Maritime, later known as Phase 2 ...

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A federal judge has denied the city’s request to stay proceedings in a lawsuit filed against the Enoch Pratt Free Library, according to an order filed Thursday. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore last month, city ...

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One of the largest parking companies in the country violated federal law by firing three employees at a downtown Baltimore parking garage based on their national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.

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Dollar General is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after Kent County assistant store manager was subjected to repeated sexual harassment on the job, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The EEOC ...

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