The federal lawsuit accuses Exxon Mobil of failing to take corrective action after the...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil on Thursday, March 2, 2023, accusing the company of failing to take corrective action after five nooses were found at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana refinery complex.The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil after investigating a Black employee’s complaint that five nooses had been found at a Baton Rouge, La., refinery complex.
The five nooses were found at the complex between April 2016 and December 2020. The company investigated some, but not all, of the incidents and failed to take measures to remedy and end the harassment, the EEOC said in the lawsuit. An employee found a third noose in August 2019. Exxon Mobil investigated but could not identify a perpetrator, the lawsuit says.
"A noose is a longstanding symbol of violence associated with the lynching of African Americans," Elizabeth Owen, a senior trial attorney in the EEOC’s New Orleans Field Office, said in a statement."Such symbols are inherently threatening and significantly alter the workplace environment for Black Americans.”
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