Drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp., on the eve of trial, has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle charges brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that it wrongfully discriminated against a Maryland employee who has epilepsy.
The settlement was one of four announced by the EEOC on November 7. A JW Marriott franchisee in Las Vegas also settled sexual harassment charges for $155,000, a hotel in California near Yosemite National Park paid $195,000 to resolve allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation, and a home for troubled youth in Michigan agreed to a 10-year consent decree to settle charges that it discriminated against pregnant employees.
