$1.65M settlement in racial-harassment suit
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2008 by Jane M. Von Bergen Inquirer Staff Writer
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A life-size noose hanging in their work area. "I love the Ku Klux Klan" scrawled inside portable toilets on the job site. The regular use of extreme racial slurs. To four African American construction workers building a new Conectiv Energy power plant on the old Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, the graffiti, the noose and the language amounted to significant and frightening harassment.
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Yesterday, Conectiv and three contractors on the project agreed to pay the four men $1.65 million to settle a racial-harassment lawsuit filed on their behalf by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Conectiv and the three contractors admit no wrongdoing in settling the case, and lawyers for the three contractors could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon. Conectiv's spokeswoman, Marianne Q. Riding, blamed contractors and subcontractors for the problem: "As soon as we were notified, we did take remedial action to take care of the situation," ...
