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Andrew B. White, a Former Seasonal Worker for the Town of Huntington, Files Federal Discrimination Suit against Town and Several Key Employees and Supervisors
On December 18, 2014, Andrew B. White, an African-American man, filed a Federal Employment Discrimination lawsuit against the Town of Huntington and several supervisors. Mr. White began his employment with the town in 2003 as a seasonal Gate Attendant in the Maritime Services Department.
Mr. White was stationed in Fleets Cove Beach while he pursued his high school diploma from Huntington High School. Upon graduation, he began working as a seasonal employee for the Huntington Highway Department in May 2007. As a seasonal employee, he worked about forty hours a week for approximately six months out of the year. From 2007 until his constructive termination in 2013, he contentiously applied for full-time permanent employment but was the victim of a continuing pattern of discrimination based on his race as an African-American and the available full-time permanent positions were given to individuals who were Caucasian, had less experience working with the town and/or were not as qualified as Mr. White for those positions.
In April 2013, Jerry Rickert, one of his supervisors, advised Mr. White that his hours would be further reduced from two days to one day per week as a result of the town appointing two employees as full-time permanent HEO II in his current department. Mr. White alleges that the town and the individuals engaged in a continuous and systematic practice of discrimination against him and other African-American employees, while others who were similarly situated and not African-American received differential and more favorable treatment. Rather than discharge Mr. White directly, those with the town intentionally created a working environment so intolerable and so demeaning that he was forced to resign. They made Mr. White's working conditions sufficiently intolerable by engaging in a continued pattern of racial discrimination and failing to abide by their own rules and policies, refusing to promote Mr. White to full-time permanent positions he was qualified for, awarding available full-time permanent positions to Caucasian employees who were not as qualified as he was, awarding available full-time permanent positions to Caucasian employees with less experience working with the town, and drastically reducing his weekly hours to one-fifth the time from forty hours to eight hours per week.
Mr. White, who has been subjected to the town's continuous and ongoing racial discrimination has filed the suit in the U.S District Court in the Eastern District of New York, seeking justice and compensation for his wrongful and abusive treatment, and seeks to prevent the future discriminatory treatment to other persons who seek employment with the Town of Huntington. Specifically, Mr. White alleges that the Town of Huntington and its high-ranking officials and policymakers, including but not limited to Thomas Boccard, Jerry Rickert, Mark J. Tyree, Neal Sheehan and Patricia Irving, acting individually and collectively, did negligently, wantonly, recklessly, intentionally and knowingly seek to and wrongfully deprive Mr. White of equal terms and conditions of employment. Frederick K. Brewington and Mickheila Jasmin from the firm are currently handling this case.
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