Mark Reid, a former Home Depot employee, filed a racial discrimination suit against Home Depot through the EEOC. Reid claimed his supervisors made frequent racially derogatory comments and racial epithets. When he complained, Home Depot fired him. To settle the case, Home Depot paid Reid $125,000 and agreed to provide anti-discrimination training for employees and managers at the store where Reid worked. This was Home Depot's second racial discrimination settlement with the EEOC.

1. Home depot Racial
Discrimination Case study

2. Home Depot Racial Discrimination
The suit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) , it was charge
filed on behalf of former Home Depot employee Mark Reid by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association.
The suit alleged that since March 2003, Reid's supervisors made frequent offensive remarks about
his race, such as calling him "black boy," "black man" and "black dog."
It is claimed that the management condoned the racially derogatory comments made by one of
Reid's co-workers, such as referring to Reid as a "worthless (racial epithet)" and telling him that the
Supreme Court had found black people to be "inferior." When he complained, the EEOC alleges
Home Depot fired him.

3. Case settlement
Atlanta-based Home Depot agreed to pay Reid $125,000 to settle the case.
Home Depot also agreed to provide Reid with a neutral letter of reference,
comply with federal discrimination law, provide training for all of its employees
in the Saugus store and all of its managers within that district.
The settlement with Reid is Home Depot's second recent settlement in an EEOC
discrimination case. In May, Home Depot agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a
sex discrimination lawsuit involving a former female employee at a store in
Shoreline, Wash.