Telemarketer to Pay $85,000 in Race, Sex Discrimination Suit

DialAmerica Marketing, a provider of telemarketing and call-center services, will pay $85,000 to resolve claims that it unlawfully fired a Black female worker, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.

According to the EEOC, a DialAmerica manager at the company’s Middleburg Heights, Ohio, location falsely accused the employee of using profanity on a customer call and sought to use the accusation to justify firing her, while the manager’s real reason was the employee’s race and sex. The employee later called DialAmerica’s senior vice president of human resources to report discrimination and that DialAmerica retaliated against the employee for her ...