EEOC sues California contractor for national origin, sexual harassment
EEOC sues California contractor for national origin, sexual harassment
Abstract
The EEOC’s suit against Orange County, California-based Goodsell/Wilkins, filed Sept. 27, claims supervisors referred to Latino laborers as “wetbacks’ and ‘Home Depoteros’ The suit alleges managers mocked workers who could not speak English and told them to go back to where they came from. Harassment included anti-Latino graffiti in portable restrooms on site. Goodsell-Wilkins did not immediately respond. The agency charged that Goodsell /Wilkins failed to address the harassment after it was reported, and fired an employee for complaining. The commission said it failed to get a pre-litigation agreement. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief.
