August 29, 2024
A pair of hefty U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlements on behalf of dozens of construction workers demonstrate the agency's laser focus on systemic discrimination in the sector and should prompt employers in the field to get their houses in order, experts said.
July 30, 2024
A paving company has agreed to pay $1.25 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it failed to stop white employees from regularly using racial slurs toward Black colleagues and taking guns to work, according to a filing in Florida federal court.
September 27, 2023
White employees at a paving company routinely uttered racial slurs at Black co-workers, took guns to work, wore Confederate-flag-emblazoned gear and flashed white pride tattoos on the job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Florida federal court.