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Fired For Having Mixed-Race Children
Hotelier
to pay out $99,000 in compensation.
An American hotelier is to pay an employee $99,000 to settle
a a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
The EEOC filed suit against Jax Inns Inc., which owns the Spindrifter
hotel in Orange Park, Jacksonville, Florida charging that the company
fired a white employee after learning she had mixed-race children. The
EEOC asserted that the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
The employee, who has not been named, worked at the hotel until management
saw her mixed-race children. The following week, according to the EEOC,
management made derogatory remarks about African-Americans and within
a month, fired her with no explanation.
The company has agreed to pay $99,000 to the former employee and train
and monitor workers at the Orange Park hotel to prevent further discrimination.
Federico Costales, director of the EEOC's Miami office said. 'We are
confident that the anti-discrimination measures we obtained in this case
will afford other Jax Inn employees the ability to work in an environment
free of racial discrimination.
Source:jacksonville.bizjournals.com
