Health-Care Providers, Retailers Face Brunt of EEOC Litigation Spree

Employers in four U.S. industries felt the brunt of the EEOC’s annual fiscal-year-end enforcement rush, especially health-care providers such as MedStar and Life Care Centers of America and retailers like Target and Dollar General.

Seven of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s 15 district offices filed the bulk of the 87 new enforcement actions launched by the agency in September, the last month of its 2018 fiscal year. The lawsuits involve a variety of claims, with allegations of sexual harassment and disability-based mistreatment being leveled most often by the agency.

The findings are based on Bloomberg Law’s review of new lawsuits ...