The probe's key witness allegedly said he "did not like Haitian people"
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts faces a federal lawsuit alleging it fired a long-tenured Haitian employee after a workplace investigation that relied on biased testimony.
Mercius Delice, who spent nearly eight years as a line cook at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, filed suit on March 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Delice v. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., No. 6:26-cv-00701). The lawsuit brings claims of race and national origin discrimination, retaliation, and hostile work environment.
According to the filing, Delice had a spotless record across his entire tenure — no disciplinary actions, no performance complaints, no warnings of any kind. That history, the lawsuit argues, makes what came next all the more striking.
In May 2024, a coworker named Jorge Frost-Madden accused Delice of sexually inappropriate conduct and lodged a complaint with Disney management. But the lawsuit points to a complication: Frost-Madden himself had submitted a separate written complaint to Disney management around the same time — on or about May 7, 2024 — describing what the filing calls a workplace "permeated with anti-Haitian hostility." Among the details in that complaint was that a coworker named Aida openly referred to Haitian employees as "monkey" in Spanish.
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