Temp: 93.0 F Heat Index: 100 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson says he hasn't rejected federal officials' offer to begin talks to reach an agreement over racial discrimination complaints made by his agency's black troopers.
Noble Metal Processing will pay $190,000 to settle a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") on behalf of a class of non-white employees. According to details in the lawsuit, Noble repeatedly overlooked qualified non-white employees, including a group of black employees and a Bangladeshi employee, for promotions to the maintenance department.
Also included in the case was a white emplo...
For a public document, it sure is kept like a secret. You won't find it on the internet. And unless you knew it existed, you wouldn't know where to look.
Until now.
After a Freedom of Information Act request, the Connecticut Employment Law Blog has obtained the 2010 Worksharing Agreement between the EEOC and the CHRO for Fiscal Year 2010 dated October 2, 2009 (download here) . I made this request following a dinner with EEOC officials last week.
What's so important...
Mike Enyart & Sons, a construction company is sued for racial discrimination and illegally firing an employee who complained about the conduct. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mareo Allen an African-American. According to accounts that were published, Allen was subjected to a hostile work environment based on his race, when he worked for the company on a sewer line installation project. While working on that project co-workers and a foreman repeatedly used racially offensive slurs and epithets t...
