The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit Monday, July 31, 2023, claiming that a Brooklyn-based company providing clients with home health aides violated federal law by removing aides from their work assignments due to their race and national origin to accommodate client preferences.
 
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency “routinely would accede to racial preferences of patients in making home health aide assignments, including by removing Black and Hispanic home health aides based on clients’ race and national origin-based requests. Those aides would be transferred to a new assignment or, if no other assignment were available, lose their employment completely.”
 
The EEOC seeks compensatory damages and punitive damages for the affected employees, and injunctive relief to remedy and prevent future discrimination based on employees’ race and national origin.