NASCAR big cheese Brian France says the suit filed by former official, Mauricia Grant, is a no no. He is saying that she never reported any type of racial discrimination, sexual harassment to her supervisors.
Grant filed a $225 million suit against NASCAR on Tuesday, alleging racial discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliatory termination.
France said Wednesday the detailed filing was the first NASCAR learned of her claims.
France also said:
"The disappointing thing is, she makes a lot of claims,'' France said. "None of them are reported. It's inconsistent with anything of our policies and how we operate the company and the sport and so the fact that it went on as she stated ... for many months I guess but never bothered to tell anyone in management what was going on, which is what our policy says, is very disappointing because we would like, if those type of things were in fact going on, we would have loved to have been able to do an investigation and review of such an allegation and we'll still do that because now that she has made these claims, we'll do like what we always do which is a very clear review. She didn't do that and that's what every employee at NASCAR is instructed to do if they think they're in a situation of discrimination or harassment or whatever it might be. She just didn't do that. Then in fact has filed a lawsuit as a remedy to this problem. We'll deal with that as well. That's really where we are.''
Q: Did you have any indication that this was coming?
"No. I knew about it this week when the suit was file. Again, our policy is such that it's very clear. We talk to employees all the time making sure that their work environment is a good one. If it's not, if there's any problems, they have a very clear path to get it solved. It's just inconsistent with anything that we would tolerate at NASCAR.''
THE LAWSUIT CAN BE SEEN HERE: NASCAR LAWSUIT
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