This is not the first time we have written about problems at Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) in Kansas City, MO. Here is our archive of six previous posts on the complaints going back to 2009.
One of the most interesting facts about this case, for me anyway, is that JVS is a subcontractor of the same federal contractor having problems in Manchester, NH right now. That would be the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) whose head honcho Lavinia Limon headed the Clinton Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and its former VP, Eskinder Negash, now runs the Obama ORR. Seems neither must have a very good management style if their subcontractors keep having problems—like in Bowling Green, KY or Waterbury, CT (and others that I am too lazy to link!)
Here we have the news of the lawsuit by former employees at The Standard (A KENYAN PUBLICATION!):
A Kenyan US based journalist and two other African immigrants have gone to court and sued a Jewish organisation in the US for racial discrimination.
Peter Makori, a resident of Kansas City who originally hails from Kisii in Kenya and Abdi Murasaal and Bakar Abdalla from Somalia have sued Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City for damages claiming they were dismissed from their employment because their boss, of Caucasian origin (white) discriminated against them due to their race, skin colour and national origins.
The three, through their lawyer, Brian Barjenbruch complained in their suit papers filed in the circuit court of Kansas City Missouri, that a white female employee who was herself not punished committed the mistakes that led to their dismissal from work.
They also filed their complaints at the Missouri State Human Rights Commission, the Kansas city human relations department and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC).
Makori and Abdallah worked as refugee resettlement case managers at the JVS, while Mursaal was their general manager at the organisation’s Centre for New Americans.
They are seeking millions of shillings [What is that in dollars?-ed] in compensation for unfairly losing their jobs and other inconveniences. They claim in their suit papers the fact that their colleague who is white was never punished despite evidence of impropriety on her job performance showed that they were victims of racial discrimination.
There is a lot more, read it all.
By the way, it’s also USCRI that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is whining about to Congress that received a couple of a million bucks to take care of trafficking victims—money the Bishops thought should rightfully be theirs.