by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs
The EEOC has announced a major settlement of a racial harassment lawsuit for $1,650,000 and significant remedial relief against Conectiv, and subcontractors on behalf of African American employees who were subjected to egregious racial harassment at a construction site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The agency alleged in its lawsuit that the defendants subjected a class of African American employees to racial slurs and graffiti as well as threats by hangman’s nooses.
