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Kane’s Furniture to Pay $1.5M in EEOC Sex Discrimination Case

Kane’s Furniture, LLC, a Florida-based furniture retail company, will pay $1,482,748.00 in monetary relief and provide significant equitable relief to settle a federal class sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that since at least 2021, Kane’s Furniture implemented a discriminatory policy of not hiring female applicants for driver and warehouse positions at their distribution center or any of their eighteen retail locations across Florida. The lawsuit charged that recruiters expressly screened women out of the hiring process.

Read more at EEOC.

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