{"id":24467,"date":"2025-11-26T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/?p=849236"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:29:31","slug":"illinois-roofing-company-sued-for-race-and-sex-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/illinois-roofing-company-sued-for-race-and-sex-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Roofing Company Sued for Race and Sex Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/img\/social\/opengraph\/ij-social-lawsuits-1200x630.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs tabs tabs-entry\">\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2025\/11\/26\/849236.htm\">Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2025\/11\/26\/849236.htm?comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">0 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<p>Anthony Roofing Tecta America LLC and Tecta America Corporation, roofing services providers in Illinois and nationwide, violated federal law when they subjected African American and female employees of their Aurora, Illinois location to race and sex harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EEOC\u2019s lawsuit, one of Anthony Roofing\u2019s vice presidents racially harassed an employee, which included repeatedly calling the employee the N-word and his \u201cslave,\u201d among other offensive racial remarks. After the employee objected to the harassment, the company failed to address it, and the harassment continued, forcing the employee to quit to avoid further abuse. Other black employees were also subjected to harassment by both supervisors and other employees, including racial slurs, being called \u201cboy,\u201d and other offensive language, the EEOC charged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bzn bzn-sized bzn-intext\">\n<ins data-revive-zoneid=\"79\" data-revive-topics=\"lawsuits\" data-revive-companies data-revive-block=\"1\" data-revive-id=\"36eb7c2bd3daa932a43cc2a8ffbed3a9\"><\/ins> <\/div>\n<p>The lawsuit also alleged that the same company vice president also subjected female employees to sexual harassment, including offensive comments about oral sex, derogatory comments about their bodies, and asking them inappropriate, sex-based questions in the workplace, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Employees reported the race and sex harassment both to management at Anthony Roofing and to Tecta America\u2019s human resources department, but the harassment continued, according to the EEOC\u2019s suit.<\/p>\n<p>Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits workplace harassment based on race and sex. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Tecta America Corp. and Anthony Roofing Tecta America LLC, Case No. 1:25-cv-14252) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: EEOC<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagtag\"> <span class=\"tagtag\">Topics<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/lawsuits\/\" class=\"btn btn-sm btn-primary tagtag\">Lawsuits<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/location\/illinois\/\" class=\"btn btn-sm btn-primary tagtag\">Illinois<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll\" data-post=\"849236\">\n<div class=\"article-poll-vote\">\n<p>Was this article valuable?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll-feedback voted-no\">\n<form class=\"feedback-form\">\n<p>Thank you! 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