Gay Former Employee Sues Qwest For Alleged Bias

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/05/052306qwest.htm

A 46 year-old gay man is suing communications giant Qwest alleging he was forced to leave his job because homophobic harassment, even though the company's own policies forbid anti-gay bias.

In court documents filed by Lambda Legal and Clip - Center's Legal initiative Project - in the District Court of Denver County it is alleged that the company did little or nothing to end the abuse suffered by Donald Moreau.

Moreau began working for Qwest in 1999 as a customer service representative. In 2001, Qwest transferred him to another department where Moreau almost immediately began suffering from antigay verbal attacks, the court papers say.

Despite being called "faggot" by his coworkers and receiving antigay pamphlets left on his desk, Mr. Moreau received accolades from his supervisors in each of his performance reviews.

[ThomCat]

1. Policy is easy. It's just positive PR.

But actually doing something is inconvenient. That's when you know if a company is all talk.