Unlawful Employment Race Discrimination

Employment related race discrimination and retaliation for complaining about racial harassment violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.  In two recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (”EEOC”) Press Releases, the federal agency announced settlements of race discrimination and harassment lawsuits.  On June 2, 2009, the EEOC announced that a family medical center agreed to pay $85,280 and provide substantial injunctive relief to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by EEOC attorneys in Michigan.  According to that Press Release, the EEOC lawsuit charged that the medical center subjected an African American supervisor to race discrimination and retaliation by failing to promote her and firing her after she complained about ongoing racial harassment.  See, http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-2-09.html .  Prior to that, the EEOC announced in a May 28, 2009 Press Release that a grocery store chain agreed to pay $27,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by EEOC attorneys in Missouri.  According to the EEOC Press Release, the EEOC charged in that litigation that co-workers and a supervisor told racist jokes and directed racial slurs at the plaintiff who worked as a cook and deli clerk in the company’s Park Hills, Missouri store.  In this regard, the EEOC contended that some of the slurs were written on a wall and in a note taped on a door and that management failed to respond to her complaints.  See, http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-28-09b.html . 

Whether workplace race discrimination, race harassment and retaliation for complaining about it occurs in Cuero, Luling, Shiner or elsewhere, victims of unlawful workplace racial harassment may contact the EEOC and an attorney or lawyer to determine if a race discrimination lawsuit may ultimately be appropriate under the particular circumstances and facts of the potential unlawful employment discrimination claim.