A hotel company agreed to pay $2.5 million to hotel dishwashers that were called slaves and then fired.
The 17 people fired from the luxury Miami Beach hotel were all Haitian and comprised the entire dishwashing staff. They went to the human resources department to complain about a supervisor calling them slaves after they asked that a broken service elevator be fixed. They were all fired as a result, according to a July 30 press release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
