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After investigating multiple complaints of pregnancy-related discrimination at O’Reilly, the Washington Attorney General’s Office (AGO) filed suit against the Missouri-based O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, in August 2023. The AGO alleged the company violated state law by systematically failing or refusing to provide pregnant and postpartum workers with reasonable workplace accommodations. The complaint also alleged O’Reilly managers retaliated against workers who requested accommodations, including by threatening them with forced leave, termination, or making them return from parental leave early.

O’Reilly Auto Parts managers are accused of denying pregnant women the ability to rest, pump breastmilk for their newborn babies and forcing them out of their jobs.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a civil rights lawsuit today accusing the corporate retailer O’Reilly Auto Parts of systemic discrimination and retaliation against the company’s pregnant employees.

This is not the first time the state has penalized O’Reilly for its workplace practices. In 2023, then-Attorney General Ferguson filed a lawsuit against the company for systemic discrimination and retaliation against pregnant employees.

OLYMPIA – Gov. Bob Ferguson and the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries are returning lost earnings to more than 2,000 Washington workers at O’Reilly Auto Parts after an investigation revealed the retailer was unlawfully eliminating unused sick pay.

O’Reilly Automotive Stores Inc. subjected a group of female employees at an Orlando, Fla., store to a male manager’s persistent sexual harassment, the federal government alleges.

The EEOC's suit charged that Tracy Leonard Clark, a supervisor, and other male employees subjected female employees at an O'Reilly store in Orlando to a hostile work environment by making sexually charged comments. These remarks included asking women for oral sex and telling them to bend over. Clark grabbed female employees on the buttocks, pinned them to tables, and brushed up against them in stock aisles, the EEOC charged.

And although he qualified for multiple open and available positions, O’Reilly refused to offer him one of the positions, citing an internal policy which prohibited drivers from being reassigned to distribution centers.

Towards the end of his leave, after he was advised that he could not drive a commercial vehicle for five years, he requested a reasonable accommodation in the form of reassignment to a non-driving position at an O’Reilly’s distribution center. Although he qualified for multiple open and available positions, O’Reilly refused to offer him one of the positions pursuant to a policy which prohibited drivers from being reassigned to distribution centers. Instead, O’Reilly terminated him, the suit said.

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The EEOC had alleged that O'Reilly subjected a male employee working in one of its Chicago stores on the South Side to sexual harassment by his female store manager. According to EEOC, the harassment included groping and sexually offensive comments. The EEOC also charged that O'Reilly did not promptly or adequately respond to his complaints of sexual harassment. O'Reilly opted to negotiate an end to the suit with EEOC shortly after it was filed.

Springfield-based O'Reilly Automotive has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of mishandling hazardous waste at its California stores.

O’Reilly Automotive wants to buy NAPA before NAPA gets a chance to stand alone. The auto parts retailer has submitted a cash bid for Genuine Parts Company’s automotive business, Bloomberg reports, in a deal that could value the NAPA-led unit at $10 billion or more. Genuine Parts had already planned to spin off the business into a separate public company in 2027. A sale to O’Reilly would replace that breakup plan with a major consolidation fight in the auto parts aftermarket. The deal would put NAPA’s repair-shop-heavy network inside O’Reilly’s corporate store machine. In the U.S., NAPA has 51 distribution centers and more than 5,950 company-owned and independently owned stores. Genuine Parts says its U.S. auto business is built around commercial “do-it-for-me” customers—the repair shops and service providers that account for roughly 80 percent of sales. The fight for the parts counter For mechanics, the local parts counter can decide how fast a job gets done. The counter offers delivery, credit, inventory, returns, and troubleshooting in one place. Lose a nearby supplier, and a shop can lose leverage on price, speed, and service. When a car is stuck on the lift, the best part is often the one that gets there first. NAPA also gives local operators a route into the parts business. The company's store owners don't pay franchise fees or royalties but operate under the NAPA brand and distribution network. O’Reilly has founder roots of its own. Charles “C.F.” O’Reilly and his son Charles “Chub” O’Reilly opened the company in Springfield, Missouri in 1957 with 11 other employee-owners. Today, it's the kind of scaled public operator that can make a $10-billion run at a rival. In the first quarter, O’Reilly reported $4.56 billion in sales, up 10 percent, and comparable-store sales growth of 8.1 percent. The bid comes as older cars are making the repair business more valuable. The average age of U.S. light vehicles rose to 12.8 years in 2025, according to S&P Global Mobility. The Auto Care Association and MEMA Aftermarket Suppliers forecast the U.S. light-duty aftermarket will grow 5.2 percent in 2026 and top $500 billion by 2029. The antitrust fight  The retail auto parts market is dominated by four major competitors: O’Reilly, NAPA, AutoZone, and Advance Auto Parts. A combination of O’Reilly and NAPA would sharply change that structure, notes

O'Reilly Automotive Inc. is suing major pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insulin manufacturers, alleging collusion to inflate insulin prices.

The Springfield, Missouri-based auto parts retailer has agreed to pay $18,842,577 to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing it of sending telemarketing text messages to phone numbers listed on the National Do-Not-Call Registry without the recipients' consent. The case, Bryan v. O'Reilly Automotive, Inc., was filed in Illinois state court in April 2025, and the settlement received preliminary court approval on June 29, 2026.

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Environment Department, O’Reilly Auto Parts reach settlement over alleged workplace safety violations related to COVID-19

By Patrick Hoff ( July 30, 2026, 6:24 PM EDT) -- O'Reilly Automotive Inc. must face a former employee's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully charged hundreds of dollars more per year for health insurance because he used tobacco, with a Missouri federal judge ruling Thursday that his claims were detailed enough to stay in court. . . .

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A Maine federal jury on Thursday awarded a former O'Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC store manager $867,000 after finding the auto parts chain violated federal and state anti-discrimination laws by failing to...

In August 2010, the ARB reached a settlement with O’Reilly Auto Parts for $125,000 for selling and offering for sale aftermarket catalytic converters without an ARB Executive Order.

A man has filed a lawsuit against O'Reilly Auto Parts claiming the Springfield-based company discriminated against him and did not accommodate his disability.

Settlement meets Rule 23 requirements, court said

O’Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC‘s workers were granted preliminary approval of a $4.1 million proposed settlement for four consolidated cases that alleged break and pay violations.

This is not the first time Ferguson has challenged O’Reilly’s discriminatory workplace practices. In 2014, Ferguson’s office investigated O’Reilly for not providing health care benefits to same-sex spouses that the company was providing to other married couples.

O’Reilly Automotive is sharing the benefits of refunds from now-invalidated tariffs with its suppliers, President Brent Kirby told analysts in a July 30 earnings call.