Springs Transit

Colorado Springs, CO: (May-17-07) The US Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission brought charges against Professional Transit Management doing business as Springs Transit, alleging that that the company maintained a work environment hostile to Hispanics, Asians and blacks. The lawsuit, filed in 2006, alleged company supervisors used ethnic slurs targeting blacks, Hispanics and Asians and that threats of violence were made against minorities. The EEOC claimed that one worker who was not identified, once commented it should not be against the law to shoot Mexicans, blacks or Chinese people. Supervisors were charged with doing nothing to stop the comments. In a settlement reached, Springs Transit agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve the racial discrimination suit. and agreed to hold anti-discrimination training programs for employees. [9NEWS: DISCRIMINATION]

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Published on May-18-07