U.S. Charges Lefrak City Denies Jobs to Women
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Federal officials filed suit yesterday against the Lefrak City, the largest apartment complex in Queens, management, women discriminated against them by refusing to provide jobs for their maintenance. In the trial, in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said that at least four women have been deprived, sustainable jobs in the development of large housing since 1994 and the two others were set on fire of temporary job because of their gender. The names of two appeals Lefrak affiliates of the organization, Mid-State management and resolution Felgreen Corporation, and seeks to new regime and countervailing measures and punitive damages, for the six women. Agency officials said they were always looking for women who have applied for maintenance work at Lefrak City in the last five years. ”Women can do this kind of job,’’said H. Spencer Lewis, Jr., Director of the Commission, the New York office. ”We know they can, and they have proven they can. They can compete with men on an equal basis.” Fredric S. Newman, a lawyer representing the company in the complaint, said that the charges were without merit. ”The companies are proud of their workforce, which is highly diversified,”he said. ”We tolerate any discrimination in hiring or other.” Mr. Newman said he had no information on the composition of the team, but also those who said in the defence, there are four women among the 200 full-time groundskeepers, banks and institutions DEPOSIT Lefrak City. ”That should tell you that something should go wrong,’’said Jennifer Sands, 34, was the first woman on the staff has been placed as a temporary, one in 1995. She said that three months after a complaint to the Commission during the year 1997, it was an ongoing task. Another claimant, Rhonda Alston, said that his supervisor, subtle forms of harassment, having complained to the Commission. ”You know, I have children, but he gave me the night relocate, which means that I work to take care of myself and consist of four 18-storey buildings,’’said Mrs. Alston, 42”Even a man can not alone.” Beginning in 1992, the two women each year for maintenance, and the positions each time, they were told, there was no opening. ”I felt, but I would be each year, new men,’’said Ms. Alston, which, as Ms. Sands said, lived largely on the complexity of their lives. Finally, he né”moi, she feels discriminated against as we are.” Women, says one, $ 14 an hour for maintenance work Lefrak City were particularly prized because of the health benefits. ”Here, people keep very prestigeträchtig, madame’’said Alston. , More than 40 hectares in Elmhurst, Corona and Rego Park, Lefrak City helped foothills of the development of means of Queens, where in the year 1960, it was built. After White and the Jews, the complex of 20 buildings has been rapid demographic change in the mid-1970 that a federal discrimination case for the accused Lefrak organization of the race and prejudice caused the business to one month’s rent 50 free black families. |