Seven black workers who said they were subjected to hangman's nooses in a racially hostile environment on an offshore oil rig will share in a $290,000 settlement of a discrimination lawsuit filed in Mississippi, the EEOC announced Thursday. The settlement resolved a suit filed against Helmerich & Payne International Drilling. The VP and general counsel of H&P said that the company did not admit that it or any of its employees engaged in any racial harassment or discrimination.
October 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Seven black workers who said they were subjected to hangman’s nooses in a racially hostile environment on an offshore oil rig will share in a $290,000 settlement of a discrimination lawsuit filed in Mississippi, federal officials announced Thursday.
The settlement announced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission resolved a suit filed against Tulsa, Okla.-based Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. for racial harassment on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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