National Origin Discrimination Case - Worker told to "Go back to Egypt."
The Mercury News reported that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed an employment discrimination case against the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. The EEOC alleges that hotel supervisors and co-workers created a hostile work environment for an Egyptian kitchen worker by making derogatory comments at his national origin. The worker was responsible for the delivering food to the buffet and subject to racial slurs and told repeatedly to "go back to Egypt." The EEOC filed suit against the hotel in federal court.
National Origin cases like this are not uncommon. At our law firm, we have handled many of these cases. We are about to file a national origin case against a large national bank for mistreating and firing a Chinese computer programmer. Our client alleges that his department was managed by several people from India and that the Indian supervisors began hiring other people from India and soon the department was predominately Indian. Our client says that favoritism was rampant with all the good assignments going to other Indians and when it came time for layoffs, he was let go while other less qualified Indians retained their jobs.
