U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

A luxury hotel in South Beach is paying $2.5 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit that claimed a group of Haitian dishwashers were fired because of their race, color and nationality and were called “slaves” by managers.

A lawsuit filed Thursday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sammy’s Gentlemen’s Club in Fort Walton Beach violated federal law by refusing to hire a male applicant because of his gender.

A luxury hotel in South Beach is facing a discrimination lawsuit that claims a group of Haitian dishwashers were fired because of their race, color and nationality and were called “slaves” by managers.

A southwest Florida produce growing and packing operation has been ordered to pay more than $17 million to five former female employees in a sexual harassment suit.

A South Florida man said he was fired from his job simply because colon cancer struck him.

A central Florida eye clinic has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a transgender employee who was terminated.