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25 Апр 2008

Автор:
Glenna DeRoy, Nashville Post [USA]

Sexual, racial harassment alleged at local insurance company [USA]

A Nashville-based insurance company has been accused of retaliation against employees who complained of racial discrimination and sexual harassment. Asurion Insurance Services Inc. will have to answer for at least 10 offenses that Jamiku Gee and Tommie Banks claim white colleagues committed over the past year, according to the complaint filed Thursday in district court. The two filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in August 2007 after a human resources investigation yielded no results. Banks was charged with sexual harassment in April 2008 and was fired, but the company would not share details of the complaint against him. The lawsuit – available here [http://www.nashvillepost.com/documents/NP_pdfs--legal/2008_04_Asurion_lawsuit.pdf] – asserts Banks was fired because of his many complaints to HR and the EEOC over the past year. Gee said in her EEOC charges – available here [http://www.nashvillepost.com/documents/NP_pdfs--legal/2008_04_Asurion_EEOC.pdf] – that she had been given new responsibilities at work but had not been compensated for those promotions. She noted the men she accused of sexual harassment were allowed to advance... Asurion representatives did not return calls for comment... Banks reported, among other offenses, that co-worker Richard Lee forwarded him a video full of racial slurs that depicted a man dressed in a KKK robe... Gee reported that another co-worker, John Carter, called her a "nappy headed ho"...and touched her inappropriately several times. A supervisor once excused his behavior to her as symptomatic of a "good ol' boy" mentality, according to the lawsuit.