It’s shaping up to be a trend: A Hawaii agency is the second home health employer within a month to write a six-figure check following an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discrimination lawsuit.

A U.S. District Judge found that Hawaii Healthcare Professionals, Inc. of Honolulu (also known as Hawaii Professional HomeCare Services, Inc.) discriminated against a former employee based on age and ordered the agency to pay $193,236, according to a July 19 press release from the EEOC.

The EEOC sued the agency on behalf of Debra Moreno, who was 54 when she was fired from her office coordinator job in 2008. While Moreno’s manager reported she was “a thorough and efficient worker,” the company’s owner, Carolyn Frutz-De Harne ordered Moreno fired.

Her objections? Moreno sounded “old on the telephone” and was “like a bag of bones.”

The manager told Moreno about these comments, who in turn filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC.

Notably, Hawaii Healthcare Professionals, Inc. isn’t the first agency to lock horns with EEOC this year. As recently as late June, the EEOC announced that Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) had agreed to pay $160,000 to settle discrimination charges. In that case, the EEOC argued that JHHCG had discriminated against an employee with a breast cancer diagnosis.

Add to that the fact that the EEOC recently issued a policy statement that makes it harder to turn down applicants based on a criminal record.

Better make sure everyone at your agency knows the rules.