Advance Auto Parts

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Advance Auto Parts agreed to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission harassment suit claiming it failed to take action when Black and LGBTQ+ workers regularly faced slurs on the job,...

A federal lawsuit says Advance Auto Parts allowed an employee to throw computer equipment at a female manager, and allowed racist, sexist and homophobic remarks around that manager and a Black employee at another Florida store.

According to the lawsuit, employees at Advance Auto Parts refused to follow instructions from an assistant manager because she is gay, calling her derogatory names targeting her sexual orientation. Black employees were also called the “n-word” by their coworkers, and a customer said he would pay a Black employee “the same thing [your] grandfather was paid for picking cotton.” Advance Auto Parts failed to take prompt corrective action to stop the harassment, the EEOC said.

EPA has entered into a consent agreement with Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (“Advance”) to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (“EPCRA”), and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) and their implementing regulations.

Advance failed to prepare Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (“SPCC”) plans for four facilities where ( printed page 22798) they stored diesel oil in above ground tanks. EPA, as authorized by CWA section 311(b)(6), 33 U.S.C. 1321(b)(6), has assessed a civil penalty for these violations. Advance failed to comply with various hazardous waste management, universal waste management, and underground storage tank requirements at eight facilities, as further described below. EPA, as authorized by RCRA section 3008, 42 U.S.C. 6928, has assessed a civil penalty for these violations. Advance failed to file an emergency planning notification with the State Emergency Response Commission (“SERC”) and to provide the name of an emergency contact to the Local Emergency Planning Committee (“LEPC”). At seven facilities, Advance failed to submit an Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory form to the LEPC, the SERC, and the fire department with jurisdiction over each facility in violation of EPCRA section 312, 42 U.S.C. 11022. EPA, as authorized by EPCRA section 325, 42 U.S.C. 11045, has assessed a civil penalty for these violations.

Advance Auto Parts, Inc. operates a distribution business whereby auto parts are purchased, stored, distributed, and sold through approximately 2400 retail stores. Advance, incorporated in the State of Delaware and located at 5673 Airport Road, Roanoke, Virginia 24012, disclosed, pursuant to the EPA “Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosures, Correction and Prevention of Violations” (“Audit Policy”), 65 FR 19618 (April 11, 2000), that they failed to prepare SPCC plans for four facilities where they stored diesel oil in above ground storage tanks, in violation of the CWA section 311(b)(3) and 40 CFR part 112. Advance disclosed that at seven facilities they had failed to file emergency planning notifications with the SERC and failed to provide the name of an emergency contact to the LEPC, in violation of EPCRA section 302, 42 U.S.C. 11002. Advance disclosed that at seven facilities they had failed to submit an Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory for to the LEPC, SERC, and fire departments with jurisdiction over the facilities, in violation of EPCRA section 312, 42 U.S.C. 11022.

The 22,000-person deal requires Advance Stores Co. to look for a new retirement recordkeeper within three years and ensure that its plan fiduciaries undergo annual training, according to the settlement motion. Judge Michael F. Urbanski of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia granted final approval to the deal in an order docketed Monday; he also approved class counsel’s fee request and signed ...

Advance Auto Parts Inc. will pay $10 million and Neiman Marcus Group LLC will pay $3.5 million to settle allegations they negligently failed to protect consumers’ and employees’ sensitive information that was exposed in data breaches related to Snowflake Inc.'s cloud-storage platform.

The lawmakers raise concerns with the companies’ purchases from Qingdao Sunsong and its US based subsidiary currently under federal investigation, according to statement

By Emmy Freedman ( October 10, 2023, 1:08 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to hear a suit against Advance Auto Parts by a customer who said a worker targeted him in a racist rant, leaving in place an Eighth Circuit ruling that concluded the ex-employee's diatribe fell outside his work duties....

Advance Auto Parts Inc. escaped, for now, a proposed class action alleging an overhyped strategic pricing plan and accounting errors spawned disappointing 2023 financial guidance and a major stock drop, a federal judge ruled.

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