Employment
Company settles for $150K over claims of racial slurs
On May 30, an oil field worker who claimed he was subjected to racial discrimination agreed to a $150,000 settlement. Michael Charleston, who is black and worked at Torqued-Up Energy Services, claimed that two supervisors used racial slurs and epithets on multiple occasions. He claimed he reported these incidents to management, and it retaliated by removing him from the field crew and assigning him to menial cleaning tasks with no opportunities for overtime. After Charleston left the company, a member of Torqued-Up management disclosed his discrimination complaints to his new employer, plaintiffs’ counsel argued.
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