98 Starr Road Operating Co., LLC, doing business as Elderwood at Burlington, a large long-term care facility located in Burlington, Vermont, violated federal law by allowing black nurses and nurse assistants to be subjected to ongoing and egregious racial harassment, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, starting in 2020, certain white patients/residents of Elderwood repeatedly directed offensive racial slurs at Elderwood’s black nurses and nurse assistants. One patient repeatedly told black employees to “go back to Africa”; followed them throughout the facility so as to racially berate them; and physically assaulted employees because of their race.
