By Associated Press
Union City, TN – Obion County pork producer Williams Country Sausage will pay $60,000 to settle a wage discrimination and racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. According to the Union City Daily Messenger, the EEOC charged Williams Country Sausage violated federal law by paying a black maintenance worker less than white counterparts and subjecting him to a hostile work environment. The EEOC claimed the company gave raises and paid higher salaries to all maintenance department employees except the department's lone black employee and allegedly allowed a supervisor to regularly use racially offensive language toward the employee.