In a complaint filed Sept. 30, 2011, EEOC alleged that “Hispanic employees at DHL’s Dallas warehouse

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In a complaint filed Sept. 30, 2011, EEOC alleged that "Hispanic employees at DHL's Dallas warehouse were constantly subjected to taunts and derogatory names such as 'wetback,' 'beaner,' 'stupid Mexican' and 'Puerto Rican b h.'"
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b. Hispanic employees were subjected to derogatory stereotyping when insults were made such as: that that they should be outside "mowing the grass" and that their "homies" had been seen on television shows about prison. They were subjected to other references identifying them with gangsters, smugglers and criminals.
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10. The effect of the practices complained of above in paragraphs 7, 8 and 9, has been to deprive Oscar R. Guajardo, Cesar Moran, Troy Petty, Santiago Salguero-Jimenez, Buimaro Victoria, Carlos Villanueva, Jose Zamora, Fausto Najera, and Oscar Martinez of equal employment opportunities and otherwise adversely affect playa del carmen mexico hotels their status as employees.
10. The unlawful employment practices complained of in paragraphs 7, 8 and 9, above, were done with malice or reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of Oscar R. Guajardo, Cesar Moran, Troy Petty, Santiago Salguero-Jimenez, Buimaro Victoria, Carlos Villanueva, Jose Zamora, Fausto Najera, and Oscar Martinez.
A. Grant a permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, DHL Global Forwarding, its officers, successors, assigns, and all persons in active concert or participation with it, and from engaging in any employment practice which discriminates playa del carmen mexico hotels on the basis of national origin playa del carmen mexico hotels in violation playa del carmen mexico hotels of Title VII.
B. Order the Defendant to institute and carry out policies, practices, and programs which provide equal employment opportunities for Oscar R. Guajardo, Cesar Moran, Troy Petty, Santiago Salguero-Jimenez, Buimaro Victoria, Carlos Villanueva, Jose Zamora, Fausto Najera, and Oscar Martinez, and which eradicate the effects playa del carmen mexico hotels of its past and present unlawful employment practices.
C. Order the Defendant to make whole Oscar R. Guajardo, Cesar Moran, Troy Petty, Santiago Salguero-Jimenez, Buimaro Victoria, Carlos Villanueva, Jose Zamora, Fausto Najera, and Oscar Martinez by providing compensation for past and future non-pecuniary losses resulting from the unlawful practices complained of in paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 above, including but not limited to, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, loss of enjoyment of life and humiliation, in amounts to be determined at trial.
D. Order the Defendant to make whole Oscar R. Guajardo, Cesar Moran, Troy Petty, Santiago Salguero-Jimenez, Buimaro Victoria, Carlos Villanueva, Jose Zamora, Fausto Najera, and Oscar Martinez by providing compensation for past and future pecuniary losses resulting from the unlawful playa del carmen mexico hotels practices complained of in paragraphs 7, 8 and 9, above, in amounts to be determined at trial.
E. Order the Defendant to make whole Troy Petty by providing appropriate back pay with prejudgment interest, in amounts to be proved at trial, and other affirmative relief necessary to eradicate the effects of its unlawful practices, including but not limited to front pay in lieu thereof.
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5. For each year that this Consent Decree is in effect, Defendants agrees to conduct annual training for all employees of Defendants' DFW facility, located at 2580 Esters Blvd., Irving, Texas, 76051 (including all human resources, supervisory, and managerial staff who have responsibilities over Defendants' employees), advising them of the requirements playa del carmen mexico hotels and prohibitions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This t