After claiming to have been told to chop his hair or leave during a training session, an Illinois man has filed a civil rights complaint with the state’s Civil Rights Commission.
Last month, Drew Harvey stated that he was aiming to drive a semi-truck for TMC in Des Moines. Harvey mentioned that he had recently obtained his CDL and was excited to start the work.
He said that although the business covered the cost of his travel to Iowa for job training, upon his arrival, he was instructed to contact the HR department.
“The next thing I know, I’m being told to cut my hair and or this is not going to work out,” he stated.
Since his father’s death four years ago, Harvey has worn dreadlocks. He claimed that since trimming his hair wasn’t an option, the firm sent him home.
“Those things he taught me when I was younger, I was able to hold on to when he went through his hardest times,” Harvey stated. “I wanted to hold on to all the time and energy that we had lasting because hair was a very crucial part of our relationship.”
Harvey claimed that the ideal work soon took a different turn. He believed that because of his hair, he was the subject of racism. At that point, he brought a civil rights lawsuit against TMC and its senior executives to the attention of the authorities.
This was not the first time TMC was the target of a lawsuit of this nature. In 2021, a guy by the name of Damon Mitchell filed a lawsuit for a comparable circumstance. Harvey claimed that until he conducted some investigation, he was unaware of this.
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“How many people have they done this to without repercussions, and will this be the last time? Honestly,” Harvey stated.
Harvey expressed his desire to prevent it from occurring to another person.
“Are dreadlocks in particular being something that rubs them the wrong way or whatnot, the company in particular, I don’t know,” he stated. “But I know for a fact that these are a part of me and these make up a big part of my being.”
