Two African American executives sue McDonald's for alleged racial discrimination
Source: Chicago Tribune
Two African American executives filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s alleging they were passed over for promotions, subjected to a hostile work environment and ultimately demoted due to “pervasive” racial discrimination at the Chicago-based fast food giant.
In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Chicago federal court, Victoria Guster-Hines and Domineca Neal, who work out of the company’s Dallas office, cited a “hostile and abusive work environment” that included threats, derogatory racial comments and impediments to advancement for African Americans within the company.
McDonald’s demoted both Guster-Hines and Neal from vice president to senior director positions in July 2018 as part of a broader corporate restructuring under former CEO Steve Easterbrook, which the lawsuit alleges was a “ruthless purge” of African Americans from the ranks of its senior executives.
Easterbrook, who was fired in November over an admitted consensual relationship with an employee, was named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with current CEO Chris Kempczinski and Charles Strong, the Chicago-based west zone president for McDonald’s.
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