EEOC Sues Construction Company for Bias Against American Workers

American workers at a construction company, including Hispanic employees, were discriminated against through slurs and being excluded from conversations in Spanish, the EEOC said in a new lawsuit.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s case filed in US District Court for the District of New Mexico on Tuesday alleged Advanced Technology Group, Inc. created a hostile work environment based on national origin for a group of American workers derided for not speaking Spanish and called slurs.

Republican EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas has prioritized enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s bar on on national origin discrimination to ensure employers ...