Fired Haitian workers at South Beach hotel SLS get $2.5 million in discrimination suit

as mentioned in Four years ago, something bitter was brewing in the kitchens of the ritzy SLS South Beach hotel. The Haitian workers were also asked to lug heavy items up the hotel's 13 floors by stairs while other workers were spared. On Friday night, the hotel agreed to pay $2.5 million to the 17 people who were fired. These trainings are "designed to prevent what happened to those Haitian workers to happen to anyone else again," Weisberg said. The SLS South Beach will also maintain a compliance monitor to keep track of the names and national origins of all employees hired and fired at the hotel.

South Beach hotel to pay $2.5 million over discrimination claims by Haitian dishwashers

A South Beach hotel has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of 17 fired Haitian dishwashers, the federal authorities said Monday. The lawsuit also said the Haitian workers were singled out for difficult tasks from which other employees were exempt. When the dishwashers reported the discrimination to the hotel's human resources department, the entire staff of dishwashers was fired in April 2014, the lawsuit said. The employees worked in the hotel's restaurants: The Bazaar by Jose Andres, Katsuya and the Hyde Beach. Greeley said the company currently employees many people of Haitian descent and urged the laid-off workers to apply to the new staffing company.

Fired Miami hotel dishwashers called 'slaves' by supervisors win $2.5 million settlement

As it stated in Seventeen Haitian people once fired as dishwashers from a luxe Miami hotel have won $2.5 million in a lawsuit against their former employer. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who filed the discrimination suit on behalf of the former kitchen staffers at the SLS South Beach hotel. Although the suit was filed in April 2017, the allegations stem from an April 2014 incident, the Miami Herald reports. The Herald also added that the Haitian workers were asked to carry heavy items up 13 flights of stairs, while others were exempt from the task. He added that SBE has over 200 employees of Haitian descent currently employed at its Miami companies.

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