Facebook has been slapped with a racial discrimination lawsuit for allegedly not responding to repeated complaints of harassment by two black employees, said a report.
CNET reported on Thursday:
It added that "the complaint asks for more than $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages per plaintiff".
Sonya Smallets, a lawyer at San Francisco-based Minnis & Smallets who is representing Duffy and Gary said:
However, Facebook has termed these complaints as "claims without merit" and said they have "investigated and taken quick action to terminate (the manager's) employment and provided extensive anti-bias, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training to all data center employees nationwide.
"Additionally, we've continued to monitor the work environment at (the North Carolina facility), and all US data centers, to ensure that improper behavior...is not repeated," the report quoted Facebook.
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