{"id":332040,"date":"2026-07-07T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:28:09","slug":"tampa-city-worker-loses-suit-claiming-anti-hispanic-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332040\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa City Worker Loses Suit Claiming Anti-Hispanic Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fired Cuban worker for the City of Tampa didn\u2019t endure severe or pervasive enough treatment to support a national origin bias claim, despite allegations that his coworkers made several derogatory comments about Hispanic people, according to a federal district judge.<\/p>\n<p>Over five years working at the City of Tampa Water Department, water plant operator Albert Chavez said his coworkers made discriminatory comments \u2014 among them that a sludge room resembled a \u201cMexican bowl,\u201d that \u201cMexicans eat the shit out of sand cranes,\u201d and how a cleaner had performed poorly \u201cprobably because she\u2019s Cuban\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Though Chavez was a member of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fired Cuban worker for the City of Tampa didn\u2019t endure severe or pervasive enough treatment to support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[136969,136971,136970,136968,136972,136973,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-332040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-discourtesy-in-workplace","tag-hostile-work-environment","tag-national-origin-harassment","tag-profanity-at-work","tag-racial-harassment","tag-retaliatory-discharge","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}