TAMPA and ORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it has filed two separate race discrimination lawsuits – one against Alto Construction Co. Inc., a site development and asphalt paving construction company based in the Tampa area, and another against J.A. Croson, LLC, a plumbing and HVAC contracting company based in the Orlando area.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit against Alto, its management regularly used the N-word in front of Black employees. Specifically, the complaint alleges that a white site supervisor told a Black employee that “we say the N-word here a lot” and, despite the employee’s objections, the site supervisor continued to use the N-word on a daily basis. The complaint also alleges that a white division manager humiliated the Black employee by ramming a shovel from the back between his legs. The Black employee objected to the assault and, in response, was fired later that day.
In a completely separate action, the EEOC filed suit against J.A. Croson. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, company management routinely used derogatory slurs in reference to non-white employees. For example, management referred to Black employees by the N-word, “boy,” “biscuit lips,” and “African bastards.” They referred to Hispanic workers as “stupid Mexicans,” “wetbacks,” and “these f--ing Puerto Ricans,” among other things. The EEOC further alleged that J.A. Croson referred to non-white employees as “non-essential” and “useless,...
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