EEOC Charges Developer With Retaliation Against Rastafarian Security Officer

The EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Grand Central Partnership, Inc. for violating a prior consent decree and committing new illegal acts in firing a black Rastafarian security officer 3 months after he complained to the EEOC about threats and his supervisor's ignoring of them.  Grand Central Partnership is a non-profit developer of the area in New York City around Grand Central Terminal.  The earlier consent decree, entered in 2009, promised accommodation of religious practices of Rastafarian security officers. New allegations claim that a non-Caribbean security officer threatened to shoot and kill a group of Rastafarian officers, and a white security supervisor made light of the threat.  The officer who was fired complained about that supervisor's conduct and his past racially discriminatory threats.