Nationwide automotive hauling and logistics firm Wheeler Trucking, doing enterprise as Wheeler Trucking Inc. and Wheeler Logistics, Inc. can pay $65,000 and furnish equitable aid to settle a race and faith lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC), the company introduced right this moment.
In keeping with the EEOC’s lawsuit, Wheeler subjected Charles R. Lynch, III, a Torah Observant worker at its Sheffield, Ohio, location to discrimination after they revoked his non secular lodging that will have allowed him to proceed having Saturdays off to watch the Sabbath. The corporate additionally uncovered Lynch, who’s Israeli, to illegal harassment that included likening him to a terrorist and mocking his non secular beliefs.
Such alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits discrimination due to race and faith and retaliation. The EEOC filed a lawsuit towards Wheeler in U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Ohio Japanese Division (EEOC v. Wheeler Trucking, et al., 1:23-cv-01874), after first trying to succeed in a pre-litigation settlement by means of its administrative course of.
The decree resolving the EEOC’s lawsuit, along with financial aid, enjoins Wheeler from discriminating and retaliating towards workers and offers for periodic reporting and monitoring by the EEOC in addition to coaching necessities.
Supply: EEOC
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