Renaissance School, a voucher school located in Racine, Wis., will pay $69,000 to settle employment discrimination litigation brought by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.
EEOC said its investigation found that, after hiring Boro Bosovich as a principal/supervisor and learning that he had retired from a prior job, Renaissance School’s owners began questioning his fitness for the job and making comments related to his age. Ultimately, they fired him a few days after hiring him.
EEOC’s investigation also found that during the few days Renaissance School employed Bosovich, at least one of its owners made gender-discriminatory comments, implying that females were more desirable as employees because they were more passive.
The EEOC filed suit against Renaissance School (EEOC v. Renaissance School, Inc., No. 2:15-cv-00411-JPS) in the Eastern District of Wisconsin in April 2015 after first trying to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The terms of the decree prohibit future discrimination and require Renaissance School to pay former employee Bosovich $69,000. In addition, Renaissance School must train its entire staff on how to prevent and handle discrimination, retaliation, employee rights.
Also, Renaissance School’s owner will personally address the entire staff before every training session with a message of zero tolerance for discrimination and retaliation. The company must preserve, track, and report to EEOC any future complaints of discrimination or retaliation.
According to company information, Renaissance School Inc., owns and operates three private schools, located in Sturtevant, Racine, and Kenosha, Wis. All three schools participate in the Racine and Wisconsin Parental Choice Programs, commonly known as “voucher” programs for public funding of private schools. According to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s website, roughly 98 percent of Renaissance School’s students for the 2014-2015 school year were publicly-funded “choice,” or voucher, students.
The EEOC’s case was litigated by Senior Trial Attorney Cesar J. del Peral of the EEOC’s Milwaukee Area Office under the direction of Associate Regional Attorney Jean P. Kamp.
EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment.
Source: EEOC
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