Each month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) files lawsuits and settles cases covering the federal laws they are responsible for enforcing. These federal laws include:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)
- The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act of 2022 (PWFA)
- The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
- Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
- Sections 102 and 103 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991
- Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
Below is a list of lawsuits and settlements by the EEOC in from January 16 to 31, 2026.
- EEOC Announcements
- EEOC Lawsuits
- EEOC Settlements
- Michigan: Sundance, Inc. and Black River Bells to Pay $100,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
- Oklahoma: McDonald’s Franchisee Arch Fellow North to Pay $80,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
- Tennessee: DHL Supply Chain (USA) to Pay $640,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Suit
- Utah: Franchise Management, LLC to Pay $150,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
- Washington: Builders FirstSource to Pay $26,000 to Settle EEOC Disability and Age Discrimination Lawsuit
EEOC Announcements
EEOC Commission Votes to Rescind 2024 Harassment Guidance
EEOC Commission Adopts Resolution to Require Commission Approval of Almost All Litigation
EEOC Lawsuits
No posted actions this period.
EEOC Settlements
Michigan: Sundance, Inc. and Black River Bells to Pay $100,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Allegations
Sex discrimination; Sexual harassment; Retaliation
Laws Involved
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
State
Michigan
Summary
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Sundance and Black River Bells employed an area coach who exercised managerial control over several of their Taco Bell locations. For months in 2022, he frequently sexually harassed a group of female employees, including underage employees. The harassment included inappropriate sexual comments, asking underage employees if they were sexually active, asking an employee if she would give him “sugar” when she turned 18, unwanted and inappropriate touching, and asking an assistant manager for videos or images of her having sex with her boyfriend. Sundance and Black River Bells also terminated an assistant manager the same day she reported the area coach’s harassment, according to the suit.
Oklahoma: McDonald’s Franchisee Arch Fellow North to Pay $80,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Allegations
Sex discrimination; Sexual harassment
Laws Involved
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
State
Oklahoma
Summary
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an adult male supervisor sexually harassed the teenage worker for about a month in November 2021. When Arch Fellow North learned about the supervisor’s sexual harassment, it failed to properly investigate the allegations and allowed the supervisor to continue supervising the teenage victim and other young workers. As a result, the teenage victim had to quit.
Tennessee: DHL Supply Chain (USA) to Pay $640,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Suit
Allegations
Sex discrimination; Sexual harassment; Retaliation
Laws Involved
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
State
Tennessee
Summary
According to the lawsuit, around November 2021, a female DHL employee complained to three supervisors that she was being sexually harassed by an operations manager and requested not to be left alone with him. None of the supervisors reported her complaints, as required by DHL policy. Later, DHL fired her for alleged insubordination when she did not submit to the operations manager’s demand to meet with him one-on-one. Other female employees confirmed that male coworkers, leads, and supervisors subjected them to sexual harassment. Many female associates complained, and DHL ignored their complaints, EEOC’s lawsuit charged.
Utah: Franchise Management, LLC to Pay $150,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Allegations
Sex discrimination; Sexual harassment; Retaliation
Laws Involved
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
State
Utah
Summary
According to the lawsuit, a male district manager who oversaw several Subway locations sexually harassed a teenage male worker, culminating in forcible sexual abuse. For months, the manager made sexual comments to the teenager, including asking him for pictures in his underwear, and trying to discuss sexual preferences, sexual experiences and pornography with him. The manager also sent the teenager pictures of the manager in his underwear. The harassment culminated in the manager sexually abusing the teenager twice during a work shift in September 2020.
Washington: Builders FirstSource to Pay $26,000 to Settle EEOC Disability and Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Allegations
Age discrimination; Disability discrimination
Laws Involved
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA); Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
State
Washington
Summary
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a 67-year-old worker was assigned by a staffing agency to work as a temporary assembler at BFS’s truss assembly facility in Arlington, Washington. The worker was qualified for the assembler position because he had worked at other physically demanding jobs. The suit said that in June 2023, after observing the worker briefly, BFS’s general manager regarded him as not suited to perform the job and asked for a replacement.