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A vice president for an Aurora roofing company harassed Black and female employees by subjecting them to racial slurs and explicit comments about their bodies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.

The EEOC sued Rosemont-based Tecta America and its Aurora-based subsidiary Anthony Roofing in federal court in Chicago after failing to reach a pre-litigation settlement with the companies.

The lawsuit alleged a vice president for Anthony Roofing “routinely” called a Black employee his “slave,” among other offensive racial remarks.

The same executive regularly made sexually explicit comments about female employees, such as by asking one woman if she was “pregnant or just fat,” the EEOC alleged.

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