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EEOC Reached Settlement over Pipeline Company’s Workplace Abuse

Last updated:

August 8, 2022

Statute

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Agencies

EEOC

Actions

Enforcement

The EEOC announced a $1.75 million settlement against Plains All American Pipeline LP (Houston, TX) and Copperhead Pipeline and Construction (Addington, OK) in a suit alleging that the companies allowed racial harassment and physical abuse against. The suit alleged that the companies allowed racial harassment and physical abuse against sixteen workers on pipeline projects in the Permian Basin, and unlawfully retaliated by firing the workers after they complained about the harassment.