The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, a bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola. The agency accuses the company of sex discrimination with regard to an employee networking event that excluded men. The lawsuit, the first over workplace diversity programs since President Donald Trump took office, says the bottler violated federal law when it hosted an event for about 250 female employees at a casino in Connecticut in September 2024.
