January 27, 2025
A plastics manufacturer will pay a Black former worker $60,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought in Wisconsin federal court claiming the business fired him days after he complained that a white worker leveled racial slurs at him.
October 17, 2024
A Wisconsin federal judge said Thursday that he jumped the gun and overlooked Seventh Circuit precedent when he dismissed a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission race bias suit, reinstating the EEOC's claims that a plastics company failed to step in while a Black worker faced harassment.
June 04, 2024
A Wisconsin plastics company defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a Black employee endured a hostile work environment, with a federal judge finding that one alleged use of a racial slur at work wasn't enough to keep the case alive.