Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against Pace Transport, Inc.
We successfully represented Ms. Earl-Holloway, who was sexually discriminated against by her employer, Pace Transport, where she worked from approximately October 2015 to April 2018. The lawsuit claimed that Pace Transport, Inc., terminated our client’s employment due to her sex (female), her disability due to an on-the-job injury, her complaints of sex discrimination during her employment, and the exercise of her rights under Missouri’s workers’ compensation laws. On February 5th, 2024, Kennedy Hunt P.C. landed a favorable default judgment in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. The Court ordered Defendant Pace Transport, Inc., owned and run by former football player Orlando Pace, to pay $531,000 in damages to our client.
Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against Illinois Tool Works and ITW Seats & Motion
This lawsuit alleges that Illinois Tool Works and ITW Seats & Motion sexually discriminated and retaliated against our client, who was employed by defendant Integrity Trade Services, a staffing agency, from November 2022 to February 2023. During her employment at the staffing agency, our client was placed in a temporary job at ITW Seats & Motion. Beginning in January 2023, a full-time employee with ITW began repeatedly harassing our client. The lawsuit alleges that on more than one occasion, the employee’s continued harassment made our client very uncomfortable and impeded her ability to perform her job responsibilities. On January 30, 2023, our client reported the sexual harassment to her supervisor and a human resources manager. On or about February 2, 2023, the human resources manager informed our client that she had not made any finding of sexual harassment because it was “your word against his.” The lawsuit alleges that in the following days, our client was told she was not a good fit for the job at ITW and was terminated from her position at Integrity Trade Services. This lawsuit is ongoing.
Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Against Axel Transportation
Our client was employed by Axel Transportation for one year, from June 2022 to June 2023. Our client’s child has a serious condition that substantially affects one or more major life activities. Per the lawsuit, the Chief Operations Officer at Axel Transportation told our client in December 2022 that the company does not offer Family and Medical Leave of Absence (FMLA). Federal law requires employers with 50 or more employees in a 75-mile radius to provide FMLA for employees who have worked at their company for at least one year and have clocked at least 1,250 hours in that time. According to the lawsuit, our client informed Axel Transportation that she’d request FMLA once she’d worked at the company for at least one year, but on her one-year work anniversary, Axel Transportation terminated our client’s employment. The lawsuit alleges that Defendant falsely claimed it eliminated our client’s position and assigned her job responsibilities to another employee who did not have a disabled child. This lawsuit is ongoing.
Wage Compensation Complaint Against Breath Source, LLC
This lawsuit alleges that the defendants employed our client as the Director of Customer Support starting in October 2022 at a salary of $77,000 a year. Our client’s employment ended in July 2023. According to the lawsuit, the defendants failed to compensate our client for the hours of work performed from about March 1, 2023, through the end of his employment.
Per the lawsuit, the defendants offered to pay our client less money than he was owed for that period, but our client declined the offer. The lawsuit alleges the defendants then failed to pay our client anything for the work he performed from May to June 2023, and failed to pay our client his final paycheck. This lawsuit is ongoing.
Employment Discrimination Lawsuit Against Pet-Ag, Inc.
Kennedy Hunt P.C. serves as co-counsel in this employment discrimination lawsuit against Pet-Ag, Inc. The lawsuit alleges that our client, a Hispanic man, experienced discrimination at his workplace, starting when he got a new supervisor in August 2021. Per the lawsuit, the new supervisor terminated or attempted to terminate three male employees with foreign ancestry based on false accusations of poor performance and/or misconduct. In each instance, the fired employees were replaced with white females. The lawsuit also alleges the defendant subjected our client to a work environment that was unreasonable, hostile, and abusive, including false accusations of misconduct against our client, unwarranted criticism and false complaints, and denial of promotions and promotional opportunities based on sex and based on race, color, national origin, and ancestry. A few months after our client reported this behavior, his supervisor was terminated. But, according to the lawsuit, the discrimination did not end there. The lawsuit claims that after our client filed charges of discrimination with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the defendant exhibited hostility, antagonism, and retaliation towards our client. The defendant terminated our client’s employment in November 2022. Per the lawsuit, the stated reason for termination was related to the purchase of forklifts, an event that happened more than one year before the termination. The lawsuit alleges the stated reason for the termination was a pretext to cover up the disparate treatment, pattern of discrimination, and retaliation. This lawsuit is ongoing.