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DONALD TRUMP teased his political comeback. Democrats did a victory lap in defeat, pointing to the seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict. And Republicans face a future haunted by a damaged ex-president who won’t go away.
Feds accuse Lysander company of discriminating against deaf job applicant
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
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Lysander, N.Y. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a distribution company outside Baldwinsville, alleging it refused to interview a qualified job applicant because she was deaf.
In a lawsuit filed on Dec. 30 in the Northern District of New York, the EEOC said a deaf woman, identified in the lawsuit as Shelley Valentino, applied on March 12, 2018, for two positions for which she was qualified at McLane Northeast’s warehouse in Lysander.
One of the jobs involved selecting designated open-case product and placing it in a tote or box to fulfill customer orders. The other involved selecting designated product, loading it into a cart or onto a pallet, and using power equipment to transport it to the designated dock area to fulfill customer orders.
Owner Subjected Female Employees to a Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Protocol of Amherst, Inc., doing business as Protocol Restaurant in Buffalo, will pay $90,000 and take other steps to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Paul Pelczynski, the restaurant’s owner and general manager, sexually harassed female employees by, among other things, engaging in numerous instances of inappropriate physical contact. The EEOC charged that Protocol discharged female employees who objected to Pelczynski’s conduct or rejected his advances, and that other female employees quit because they could no longer endure the hostile work environment.
An Amherst restaurant will pay $90,000 among other measures to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).