Bechtel to pay Iraqi worker $90,000 to settle bias case

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NEWARK, N.J. -- Bechtel Inc., the giant construction company helping to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, has settled a bias lawsuit by agreeing to pay $90,000 to an Iraqi-American employee fired from its Hackensack facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.

The company denied the allegations, but consented to provide annual anti-discrimination training to managers and supervisors at its locations in Hackensack, Chicago and Melville, N.Y..

The EEOC brought the lawsuit in September 2003 on behalf of Sahir Kizy of Royal Oak, Mich., charging the company did nothing to stop discrimination and harassment against him after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and fired him in June 2002.

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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, said that on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and continuing afterward, Kizy was subjected to physical attacks, as well as verbal assaults, including being called "(expletive) Arab," and was told to "go home to wherever you came from."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--bechtel-eeocsuit1216dec16,0,4342831.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

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1. But but, we love the Iraqi people!

Asshats.