Riverwalk Post-Acute, a Riverside skilled nursing facility, violated federal law by allowing a class of Black employees to be subjected to racial harassment and one employee to be retaliated against, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. The EEOC filed suit against Orange Treeidence OPCO, LLC, Providence Group, Inc., and Providence Administrative Consulting Services, Inc., dba Riverwalk Post-Acute. According to EEOC’s lawsuit, since at least 2018, Riverwalk Post-Acute allowed a class of Black employees to be subjected to racial harassment by residents, co-workers and a supervisor. The harassment included repeated, frequent and offensive race-based remarks and slurs directed at staff. The EEOC contends that all three employers failed to adequately respond to multiple complaints of harassment. Employees were told to tolerate abusive remarks and a hostile work environment, and one employee was retaliated against for complaining of racial harassment, the EEOC’s suit further alleges.
