This industry has been rife with harassment for decades, EEOC says
A construction firm in Orange County currently faces a lawsuit over alleged harassment of its Latino workers and retaliation against said workers.
The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claimed that Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc.’s actions breached Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.”
According to SiliconValley.com, the action filed stated that a male Mexican worker had begun working at Goodsell/Wilkins around December 2017.
The news outlet said the worker stayed in the company until June 2019, when he was terminated from his employment after complaining to the management about the ongoing workplace harassment. Reports also showed that another male worker of Nicaraguan descent and his colleagues were allegedly laid off around September 2019 after making similar harassment complaints.
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The harassment included being mocked if they could not speak English, telling the workers to return to where they belong, and being labeled as “wetbacks” and “home depoteros,” according to EEOC’s press release.
“The harassment also included anti-Latino graffiti found in portable restrooms on Goodsell/Wilkins’ worksites, which included abusive terms and offensive imagery demeaning to Latino...
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