The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., which ranks as one of the industry’s largest contractors, has been accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of creating a racially hostile work environment at a Tennessee project site and of retaliating against employees who complained.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which filed a 13-page complaint against Whiting-Turner in U.S. district court in Nashville on Sept. 30, claims that between May 2018 and the fall of 2019 Black laborers at the contractor's Google data center worksite in Clarksville, Tenn., were harassed because of their race, and that some were fired after they complained.