Kenneth Hatten, who is African American and 54 years old, and was an employee of about 11 years at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel. However, he was terminated after giving a guest a business card with his home number.
Hatten has filed a civil suit against the Crescent, for age and racial discrimination. He is not the only one as reportedly others have come forward with similar complaints. The suit asserts that beginning in 2011, the year Hatten was fired, Crescent began a systematic employee profiling, getting rid of minority and older employees. There were at least ten other “older and minority” workers who were out of a job due to this discriminatory reasoning.
The marketing director for Crescent, Adrian Norbury, insists that there is no such discrimination going on and pointed out there are a number of older and minority workers working for the company. However, a handful of other Crescent employees have complained with the Equal Employer Opportunity Commission.
