A supermarket in Statesville, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging the store discriminated against a white employee.
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Download NowThe EEOC alleged that West Front Street Foods fired a white, non-Hispanic meat cutter, from a Compare Foods supermarket in Statesville because of his race and national origin and then replaced him with a Hispanic worker.
In addition to paying $30,000, the company agreed to distribute a formal, written anti-discrimination policy; provide periodic training to all its employees on the policy and on federal law's prohibition against national origin and race discrimination; and send periodic reports to the EEOC concerning employees who are fired or resign.
Last year, the EEOC settled a lawsuit against another Compare Foods supermarket in Charlotte . In that case, the EEOC alleged that the employer fired three non-Hispanic employees in the store's meat department because of their race or national origin and replaced them with Hispanic workers.