The lawsuit said that between August 2009 and November 2010, all white workers in the laundry and housekeeping departments resigned or were fired and replaced with Latinos.
Former employees at a western Colorado hotel said they were fired and replaced with Latino workers because the business owners thought white, non-Hispanic workers were lazy, according to a federal lawsuit announced Monday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking back pay and compensatory damages for employees that federal officials said were illegally fired from a Hampton Inn franchise in Craig because of their race and national origin — white and non-Hispanic, according to the lawsuit filed last week.
In August 2009, the lawsuit claims, a new general manager of the hotel was told by the business owners “to hire more qualified maids, and that they preferred maids to be Hispanic because in their opinion Hispanics worked harder.”
The lawsuit says the general manager, Edward Callison, told a white housekeeping supervisor “that she was being discharged because the owners of the hotel preferred ‘non-American’, non-Caucasian employees because it was their impression that such workers are lazy,” the lawsuit states.
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