Trump hit with homophobic discrimination lawsuit from gay former employee
One of Donald Trump’s businesses is facing a lawsuit from a gay ex-employee who alleges he was sacked after complaining aboutĀ homophobic harassment.
The caseĀ was brought by Eleazar Andres, a former employee at the Trump National Golf Course in New Jersey.
MrĀ Andres says that after he came out in 2014, he was frequently targeted with homophobic slurs from co-workers.
He alleges that supervisorsĀ witnessed him being referred to as a “faggot” and “maricĆ³n”, but did nothing to stop it.
According to Slate, the harassment turned violent during one incident, when a co-worker threw a rock at his head, hospitalising him.
The former employee says theĀ Trump National Golf Club violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws by fosteringĀ a hostile work environment based on sexual orientation, and is also suingĀ well as discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The lawsuit alleges that the club is responsible forĀ “the acts constituting hostile work environmentā and “sexual orientation harassment” as it had failed toĀ “implement any preventative or remedial measures to protect against unlawful harassment”.
He contends that managers had displayed āegregiousā and āwilful indifferenceā to his complaints of abuse, alleging that they terminated his employment as a result of the complaints.
TheĀ Trump National Golf Course contests the claims.Ā The case is currently in court-mandated mediation.
