Manufactured Home Companies Settle EEOC Suit for Biracial Worker

Cavco Industries, Inc., Palm Harbor Homes, Inc., and Palm Harbor Villages, Inc., will pay $135,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC on behalf of a biracial worker in Texas, the agency said Tuesday.

A sales consultant at a Palm Harbor Homes location was harassed and fired after disclosing he had a biracial family and refusing to engage in conversations disparaging Black people, which violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, according to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The general manager and assistant manager, both of whom were fired after the case began, repeatedly ...