The settlement covers 12 current and former Water Department workers who claimed they were subjected to a 'hostile and abusive work environment.'
CHICAGO -- Attorneys for the city of Chicago have agreed to a tentative $5.8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by 12 Black employees of the Department of Water Management, who claimed they were subjected to a culture of racist discrimination and harassment.The settlement agreement was reached on Monday, less than a month before the case had been set to go to trial in federal court in Chicago , according to court records.
While some top supervisors were purportedly fired over their behavior, the lawsuit claims they were allowed to resign or retire with full benefits rather than face any actual punishment.'Observing the discriminatory pattern of treatment of African-American employees and hearing the racially derogatory language, other Caucasian employees learned that racially discriminatory behavior would not only be tolerated, but that they themselves should engage in such behavior,' the lawsuit claims.
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