Other LanguagesSPOKANE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Horning Brothers, LLC, a Quincy-based agricultural company, will pay $525,000 in a civil rights enforcement action claiming sexual harassment of multiple female agricultural workers, discriminatory hiring and sex-segregated employment practices and retaliation against workers who reported the improper conduct.
SPOKANE - El procurador general Bob Ferguson anunció hoy que Horning Brothers, LLC, una compañía agrícola con base en Quincy, deberá pagar $525,000 como resultado de una demanda de cumplimiento de derechos civiles por el acoso sexual al que fueron sometidas varias trabajadoras agrícolas, así como también por prácticas de contratación y de empleo discriminatorias por razón de sexo y represalias contra las trabajadoras que denunciaron estas conductas indebidas.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit against national restaurant chain Jersey Mike’s after it refused to remove no-poach clauses from its franchise contracts.
OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson released the following statement on the state Supreme Court’s decision today in State v. Gregory, ruling that the state’s death penalty is unconstitutional:
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that a recent internal survey found almost half of child dependency cases and about 40 percent of parental rights termination cases handled by the Attorney General’s Office are impacted by opioid abuse.
OLYMPIA — The Attorney General’s Office has completed its inventory of Washington state’s unsubmitted sexual assault kits, finding 6,460 kits that have not yet been submitted for lab testing by local law enforcement agencies.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today he will return more than $2.2 million to Uber drivers affected by a November 2016 data breach at the international ride-sharing company.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit against several Wenatchee-based collection agencies and their owner for buying millions of dollars of old debt and suing to collect on the debt without being licensed as collection agencies with the state.
OLYMPIA — This evening, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his softball team will go head-to-head with Governor Jay Inslee to continue the softball rivalry between the offices — and the AGO winning streak. Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice and former AAG Mary Fairhurst will again call the balls and strikes as umpire.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will conduct testing and, if successful, begin implementing a new system to treat or capture hazardous tank vapors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation within the next three years, under the terms of an agreement submitted to a federal court today.