(The Hill.com) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing ExxonMobil over racial discrimination after multiple nooses were found at one of the company’s facilities.
The EEOC said in a release on Friday that ExxonMobil violated federal law in not taking “effective measures” to prevent hangman’s nooses from being displayed at its facility in Baton Rouge, La.
The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, states that a Black employee at the chemical plant found a noose while working in January 2020 and reported it to the company. ExxonMobil was allegedly already aware of three other nooses that had been found at the Baton Rouge facility.