In the second federal action within five days involving charges of racist graffiti at company worksites, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Chicago District Office Jan. 11 filed a complaint in federal court charging an employer with fostering a racially hostile work environment by failing to clean up or prevent the occurrence of racially offensive graffiti.
EEOC filed its most recent complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Scientific Colors Inc., alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. EEOC charged that Scientific Colors, which manufactures press ink for publishers under the name Apollo Colors, fostered a hostile work environment that included racist graffiti drawn on employee restroom walls and stalls, on changing room lockers, and in an employee breakroom.
