Safelite Fulfillment, LLC, the largest auto glass repair company in the United States, violated federal law by refusing to hire qualified female applicants nationwide for technician positions because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced.
According to the EEOC’s suit, a class of female applicants applied for technician positions at multiple Safelite locations nationwide, only to be passed over because of their sex. During the application and interview process, female applicants were subjected to derogatory comments based on sex-based stereotypes, including being told that technician positions were “a man’s job.” Since 2021, Safelite systematically denied female applicants technician positions, despite some who scored higher than male applicants on required job assessments, and the company instead hired less qualified male applicants, the suit said.
“Title VII prohibits making hiring decisions based on sex,” said Marcus G. Keegan, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Atlanta District. “In this case, Safelite has failed to hire women throughout the United States and has explicitly or implicitly told female applicants that they will not be hired because they are women.”
This alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits making hiring decisions based on the sex of the applicant. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Safelite Fulfillment, LLC, Case No. 1:26-cv-3626) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.
