U.S. sues Houston for discrimination against female firefighters

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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department pronounced on Wednesday that it had sued Houston over accusations that dual womanlike firefighters were subjected to passionate nuisance including masculine co-workers urinating in their dormitory and essay sexist messages on walls.

“(The) antagonistic work sourroundings enclosed males urinating on a walls, floors and sinks of a women’s lavatory and dormitory, disconnecting a cold H2O to singe a women while they were showering, and deactivating a womanlike dormitory’s proclamation speakers so a women could not respond to puncture calls,” a Justice Department pronounced in a statement.

Officials from a city of Houston and a glow dialect were not immediately accessible to comment.

The accusations done by Jane Draycott and Paula Keyes came to light about 9 years ago, though a Justice Department pronounced a lawsuit was a initial underneath a new beginning to fight passionate nuisance in a workplace.

The lawsuit, filed in a sovereign justice in Texas, seeks to need a Houston Fire Department to rise and exercise policies to forestall sex taste and for a dual women to accept financial service “to recompense them for a indemnification they postulated as a outcome of a purported discrimination.”

The conduct of a Houston Fire Department stepped down in Jan 2010, a few months after a accusations were done public.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2011 sided with a women in last that they were subjected to a antagonistic work sourroundings formed on gender. After catastrophic conciliation efforts, a EEOC referred a charges to a Justice Department.

Reporting by Jon Herskovitz

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