Williston company settles federal racial discrimination suit
A Williston-based oil field service company will pay $250,000 to a worker it fired after he complained of harassment to settle a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article79742347.html
Some of this is quite outrageous and even hard to believe.
Excerpt:
The lawsuit filed a year ago alleged that a white manager for American Casing & Equipment Inc. harassed Matthew Clark, a worker of Filipino heritage who came to the North Dakota oil patch from his home state of Washington, by directing racial slurs at him, jabbing him with a finger in the stomach and chest, and once urinating on his leg while he worked under a truck.
"This case has conduct that clearly shocks the conscience of any decent human being," attorney Joshua Newville, who represented Clark, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The EEOC said the harassment began in November 2012 and continued for more than a year, and that a supervisor made no attempt to stop it. Clark ultimately was fired in January 2014 when he complained to the company's safety manager, the federal agency said.
