The village of Oak Park and a former employee settled a racial discrimination lawsuit last month, with the village paying $80,000 to close out the 2019 case.
Howard Stokes, who was a longtime worker in the Water and Sewer Division of the Public Works Department, alleged that he was fired by the village in 2018 because of his race. An African American, Stokes was hired in the late 1990s in its streets and sanitation department and then transferred to working in the Water and Sewer Division, where he was promoted to a supervisor in August 2004.
However, in a response filed in court in 2020, the village alleged that Stokes was fired because he had not met performance expectations as a supervisor, and that he had engaged in misconduct and village policy violations.
In the lawsuit, Stokes alleged that the underling had treated him badly because of Stokes’ race, and he also alleged that racial discrimination was behind the disparity between his punishment and punishments meted out to white employees. In pleadings, Oak Park’s attorneys stated that Stokes’ firing was rooted not in his race, but in his behavior and job performance.
In what is a standard clause in such kinds of legal settlement agreements, both parties agreed not to make disparaging statements about the other.
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