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.