California Toyota dealership settles discrimination suit
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Buy SPH photosFREMONT, Calif. (AP) - A North California Toyota dealership has agreed to pay US$400,000 (S$497,135) to five former Afghan-American employees who say a manager called them terrorists and threatened them.
The Fremont Argus reports that Fremont Toyota's former general manager allegedly called four salesmen names and threatened to blow them up with a grenade in a 2007 staff meeting.
A spokesman for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the Afghan-American salesmen resigned after facing harassment for reporting the abuse and a manager was fired for also complaining.
The general manager has since left the dealership. The new manager and the attorney representing Fremont Toyota declined to comment to the Fremont Argus.
