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United Pride Dairy LLC, a dairy farm in Phillips, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it subjected three employees of Mexican origin to disparate treatment in the terms and conditions of employment, and also subjected a female employee to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, United Pride promised three Mexican nationals professional and/or management positions when they were hired and submitted the same information to the U.S. Embassy for their TN Visa applications. But when the three Mexican nationals arrived on the farm, the dairy denied the promised positions and instead gave them laborer positions and assigned more arduous tasks and shifts to Mexican workers. When a Mexican worker complained, a manager at United Pride Dairy justified the disparate work assignment based on a negative stereotype of American workers, saying “Americans are lazy,” according to the suit.

The EEOC’s complaint also charged that a female Mexican employee’s direct supervisor subjected her to sexual harassment when he frequently shared demeaning pornographic images with her and repeatedly made sexually offensive comments to her.

The dairy’s alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits national origin and sex discrimination, including different terms and conditions of employment on the basis of national origin and sex-based harassment. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (EEOC v. United Pride Dairy LLC, 3:25-cv-1030). The EEOC seeks monetary relief for the employees as well as injunctive relief to prevent discriminatory practices in the future.

Source: EEOC

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