The EEOC initiated a lawsuit to obtain its first subpoena under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, seeking information from a freight transportation and logistics services personnel provider accused of bias.
As part of a discrimination investigation on behalf of a female driver, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is requesting information from Illinois-based R&L Carriers Shared Services LLC about workers who also asked for pregnancy-related job accommodations.
The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois will weigh the agency’s case.
The R&L driver who filed the discrimination charge with the EEOC alleged she was placed on involuntary unpaid leave ...
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