Florida construction company pays $38,000 to settle sexual discrimination lawsuit
A Davie construction company paid $38,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit that claimed an applicant for heavy equipment operating jobs was told “We are not allowed to hire women on this job.”
The applicant, Davie resident Colleen Bendel, has 20 years experience operating heavy machinery. Bendel began receiving the $38,000 as compensatory damages for BHT’s actions in March.
She applied online in 2017 for heavy equipment operator, excavator operator and bulldozer operator jobs. After she wasn’t contacted and a former co-worker told her he had been hired on the spot at a BHT’s worksite in Clewiston, she followed the co-worker’s suggestion of going to the worksite.
The lawsuit said she got a runaround from the company that included a worksite supervisor telling her, “We are not allowed to hire women on this job.”
