The Employment Law Counselor

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently filed a lawsuit against Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, Inc. (“Coca-Cola Northeast”) alleging that the Coca-Cola distributor discriminated against its male employees on the basis of sex.

In its complaint, filed February 17, 2026 in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the EEOC alleges that Coca-Cola Northeast engaged in sex discrimination in violation of federal discrimination laws when it sponsored a two-day “trip and networking event” for female ... Continue Reading

Last month, the EEOC filed a first of its kind lawsuit in federal court in Georgia based on an employer’s denial of an accommodation request to work from home. In the suit, the employee, a former health and safety manager at a facility services company, alleged that at the start of the pandemic, she requested to work from home as an accommodation for her chronic obstructive lung disease and hypertension. Shortly after her request, the company directed its employees to work from home four days per week. In June 2020, the company required that all staff to return to in-person work at the facility five days per week.Continue Reading