Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

A look at potential 2025 labor law changes under the Trump administration, including updates on DOL wage rules, FTC noncompete policies, NLRB shifts, and EEOC workplace guidance. read more >

Three stores in North Carolina allegedly failed to provide intermittent leave as a reasonable accommodation read more >

Eastern District of Arkansas U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr., who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, denied the states' request for a nationwide preliminary injunction on the federal rules, which are scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday. read more >

The new law treats pregnancy and related conditions as themselves deserving of “reasonable accommodations” and places the burden on employers to prove “undue hardships” for denying any requests. read more >

The act requires most employers with 15 or more employees to provide "reasonable accommodations" for a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions — including fertility and infertility treatments in some cases. read more >

The group practice Interventional Pain Management Associates PLLC, a department of the hospital, was also named as a defendant in the case. read more >

It's the fifth time this year that the EEOC has sued Walmart over alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. read more >

The exam was part of a training program designed to measure employees' knowledge of customer service, inventory essentials and more. read more >

The suit says that a Walmart store in Olathe, Kansas, hired two deaf employees as overnight stockers but refused to provide an interpreter or communic read more >

The company allegedly denied an employee's request to be exempt from its vaccine requirement based on her Christian beliefs. read more >

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. read more >

Attorneys general from 20 states including Arkansas sued President Joe Biden's administration Monday seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ people. read more >

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asks a federal judge to allow it to monitor Walmart Inc. of Bentonville for five years after a Wisconsin jury found the retailer failed to accommodate a longtime employee with Down syndrome. read more >

A longtime employee of Walmart Inc. of Bentonville sued the retail giant in Washington County Circuit Court alleging the company fired her in August 2017 because of disability discrimination and retaliation. read more >

Dillard’s Inc.’s resistance to a long-running race discrimination investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has proved futile: A federal judge has ordered the Little Rock retailer to turn over contact information so that hundreds of past and current employees can be surveyed. read more >

Personnel moves made in 2014 which resulted in the ARORA executive director being fired less than two months after taking on the job wasn’t the end of the nonprofit’s problems. read more >

A U.S. District Court judge recently ordered Dillard’s Inc. to explain why it won’t comply with a subpoena from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. read more >

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed only two lawsuits in the state this calendar year, continuing a recent trend line. In 2011, the EEOC filed six lawsuits in Arkansas’ federal courts and three the following year. Last year, the EEOC filed only two lawsuits against companies operating in the state. read more >

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell is reviewing its company hiring policy and has settled a racial discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. read more >

Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock settles with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over two company policies the EEOC said violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. read more >