July 27, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has pulled its Sixth Circuit appeal of a lower court's order allowing a staffing agency to exit a race discrimination suit claiming it and a packaging company unlawfully turned away Black applicants.
May 02, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Tennessee federal court Friday it wants to get the Sixth Circuit's take on an order dismissing a staffing agency from a lawsuit claiming the company worked in tandem with a client to restrict the hiring of Black workers.
March 04, 2025
A Tennessee federal judge ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can't revive allegations that Supreme Staffing LLC unlawfully fired Black workers in tandem with a client, saying the allegation could have been brought in earlier suits the agency lodged against the staffing company.
September 27, 2024
A contract packing company agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it hired fewer Black workers at its Memphis, Tennessee, facilities and segregated the ones it employed, according to a federal court filing.
September 22, 2023
A staffing agency and a snack food packaging company worked together to place fewer Black workers at the company's facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, and the company segregated the Black workers it did hire and gave them less desirable tasks, the EEOC told a Tennessee federal court.