LOS ANGELES – Orange County, California-based construction contractor Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc., violated federal law when it subjected a class of Latino employees to harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in a federal lawsuit filed today.
The EEOC alleged that since at least 2019, Goodsell/Wilkins’ supervisors subjected Latino construction workers to national origin harassment which included but was not limited to: referring to them as “wetbacks” and “Home Depoteros,” mocking them if they could not speak English, and telling them to go back to where they came from. 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 workers.
The EEOC’s suit also stated that a supervisor would sexually harass the Latino workers by referring to them as whores and using other derogatory slurs, showing them explicit pictures, and threatening sexual assault.
The EEOC charges that Goodsell/Wilkins not only failed to address the harassment even after it was reported, but instead chose to terminate one employee for complaining and constructively discharged several others.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (EEOC v. Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc., Case No. 8:22-cv-01765) after first attempting to reach a...
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