A longtime Southern California Edison employee who claims shes been wrongfully passed over for promotions despite applying for more than 50 positions over a nine-year period is suing the utility, alleging racial and gender discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
“Since 2009, plaintiff has submitted over 100 applications to over 50 different positions. During that time, SCE has denied all promotions and upward advancements for plaintiff, despite plaintiffs superb qualifications and excellent performance,” according to the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of Everette D. Crudup.
The suit alleges SCE promotes co-workers of Crudup who are less skilled, but who have the qualifications of “not being black, not being a woman and not having complained about discrimination or harassment.”
The interviews Crudup did receive for promotions between 2009 and 2018 were “superficial and dismissive,” according to the suit.
Crudup also alleges she has been forced to work in a racist environment, citing an SCE work order that allegedly called for a crew to perform “Jim Crow Construction,” slang for work that involves the hanging of equipment and materials.
An SCE spokeswoman said she would check to see if the company has a comment.
The plaintiff is seeking at least $1 million in damages and a court order directing SCE to investigate its employees racial and retaliation complaints promptly and thoroughly by a neutral third party.
Crudup was hired in 2002 as a temporary worker and became a permanent employee the next year, according to her court papers. She received two promotions to designer positions in 2006 and 2009, but none since then, the suit alleges.
The suit also alleges many SCE male employees who are not black are condescending toward their black co-workers, even when the latter are their superiors.
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