In an era where social conscience about racial stereotypes grow all over the world as millions attempt to halt it, the CVS lawsuit from employees comes as a big problem in the image of the pharmacy chain, the second largest in the United States and altogether the 12th largest company in the world.
Weeks after one of the country's biggest food chains, Pizza Hut, was accused of racism after employees of one of their venues wrote the N-word and drew swastikas on a pizza pie's box, now the CVS lawsuit from employees causes major concern for the pharmacy chain, as former workers accuse them of racial profiling.
According to The New York Times, the CVS lawsuit from employees comes from four former store detectives from New York, who filed a class-action suit against the chain last Wednesday where they accuse their former bosses of having ordered them to target black and Hispanic shoppers by claiming they're more likely to steal.
RT reports that the plaintiffs of the CVS lawsuit from employees say they were dismissed from their jobs when they complained over the racist practice after being ordered to profile minority shoppers in three different stores throughout New York City.
According to Yahoo! News, the CVS lawsuit from employees claims that their bosses and a few store managers not only ordered them to track customers belonging to minorities (even when there was no indication that any of these people were about to steal anything - and they were never forced to target white shoppers), but they also subjected black and Hispanic employees to racial slurs on a regular basis.
The suit claims different violations to the New York Human Rights Law as well as a city law that prohibits racial discrimination by employers.
The CVS lawsuit from employees case is Simpson v CVS Pharmacy, and it's being handled in the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
