EEOC v. Raytheon Technical Services

No. CV 02-00735 (D. Haw. November 5, 2004)

The San Francisco District Office filed this Title VII case against Raytheon Technical Services, a Raytheon Company subsidiary that performs a variety of civilian base operations support services under a contract with the U.S. Air Force on Johnson Atoll, some 700 miles southwest of Honolulu. The Commission alleged that defendant failed to hire charging party as a painter when it became the new contractor at the military base because of his race, black. Charging party had worked as a painter for 2 years for Kalama Services, the prior contractor at the base. He had over 20 years of experience as a painter and was certified by the Navy and the Department of Labor as a journeyman painter. Defendant hired five painters, all of whom were Asian/Pacific Islanders, and claimed that it based its decisions upon skill and ability as well as prior experience with defendant. Three of the selectees had previously worked for defendant (in the 1990s), but the remaining two hires like charging party had not worked for Raytheon in the past but had been employed as painters by Kalama at the time that defendant won the new contract. These two selectees had less painting experience than charging party. The parties resolved the case through a consent decree providing $165,000 to charging party.

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