Two years ago, George Prue sought a temporary job as an administrative coordinator at the University of Washington, a position he thought matched his graduate education and work experience.
What happened next, the 55-year-old, African-American man said in a federal lawsuit recently filed against the UW, was racial and age discrimination.
He said the university gave him a five-minute interview, hired a white man nearly 20 years younger than him the next day and offered Prue a much different temporary job: moving office furniture.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found probable cause that the UW had violated Prue’s civil rights. The finding, issued March 26, was the first such determination issued by the EEOC against the UW in a decade, Prue’s lawyer said Wednesday.
Prue sued Friday in U.S. District Court. His complaint states that he has a master’s degree in educational administration and supervision from the University of the District of Columbia and “more than 25 years of professional administrative experience.”
