Posted on 07/28/2020 3:43:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement with Brevard County, Florida, resolving its race discrimination lawsuit against the county.
The suit alleged that the county violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it fired Deidre Jackson, an African-American communications specialist in its Space Coast Tourism Office. Title VII is a federal statute that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and religion.
“No one should suffer the indignity of losing her job because of the color of her skin. To that end, the Department of Justice will vigorously enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so that state and local governments do not close the doors of equal employment opportunity to anyone because of race,” said Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Eric S. Dreiband. “The Justice Department was established 150 years ago with a founding charge to protect civil rights and this settlement reinforces our continuing commitment to eradicate the scourge of racial discrimination in the government.”
According to the department’s complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jackson had an excellent work history including positive evaluations and no disciplinary actions throughout her eight years of employment with the county. According to the allegations contained in the complaint, however, shortly after a new director was appointed as manager of the office in 2014, Jackson’s work came under unjustified scrutiny not applied to other co-workers performing similar duties. That director fired Jackson in April 2015, six months after he was hired.
The director never expressed any concern about Jackson’s work performance prior to terminating her employment. As the complaint alleges, he told Jackson that she did not fit his vision of the office without further explanation. After her firing, the director replaced Jackson with two white employees. Around that same time, the complaint alleges, the only other minority employee in the tourism office was forced to resign. The departure of the two minority employees resulted in an all-white tourism office.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the county will pay Jackson $150,000 for lost wages and compensatory damages. The settlement agreement also requires the county to provide its supervisors and managers with training on its anti-discrimination policies and on the types of conduct in the workplace that constitute unlawful employment practice under Title VII.
The Tampa Field Office, which is part of the Miami District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), investigated and attempted to resolve Jackson’s charge of discrimination before referring it to the Department of Justice as an enforcement action. More information about the EEOC’s jurisdiction is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.
The full and fair enforcement of Title VII is a top priority of the Justice Department’s Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division. Additional information about the Civil Rights Division and the jurisdiction of the Employment Litigation Section is available on its websites at www.justice.gov/crt/ and www.justice.gov/crt/emp/.
Interesting case below this one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-charged-tax-offenses
“The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was charged today in a superseding indictment with tax offenses for failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China.”
Hmmm, Wuhan U, you say? And what was the ill-gotten gains for, I wonder?
I worked out of an office which successfully fired a Black secretary. It is easy to fire someone in their first year of employment in U.S. Civil Service. The only exception is civil rights which she used.
Fortunately both of the other secretaries were also Black and opposed her.
How did the lady find out that whites got hired after her, and how did she prove it?
Good find! I will post it if it’s not posted already.
This does happen. In the fedgov I worked in an office where it was the unstated but clear rule that no Negroes were going to work there. Even with black military supervisors the senior civil service types held the line until the Cold War ended and mass downsizing and constant reorganization became the order of the day.
Here in Maine, the moonbat 70+ shrimp governor picked a white person to head a state agency.
The governor’s fellow rat bastards blocked the nomination, because these morons wanted a person from “an oppressed class.”
The scumbag governor caved.
Maine is 96% white.
Because this event/firing happened in 2015.
Whoever hired Eric Garvey should be tarred and feathered as well as the sole individual who should pay the fine. Garvey should only be tared and feathered.
Jackson had an excellent work history including positive evaluations and no disciplinary actions throughout her eight years of employment with the county.
Sounds like a race-conscious racist used to be her supervisor.
Who was the President in 2015?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.