The Woodruff Arts Center said it will “cooperate fully” with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which last week filed a determination that the center and its security contractor had discriminated against seven female security guards who were fired after Woodruff requested that only men be hired to patrol outside the property in late 2007.
According to the EEOC finding, Lisa Harris and six other security guards were fired on or about Oct. 17, 2007, after Woodruff eliminated its “inside roving” patrols and “instructed U.S. Security Associates not to employ females for its outside security detail.”
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