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Food giant gets slapped with a $200 million racial lawsuit. Kenneth Thompson, a New York attorney and former federal prosecutor, has filed a $200 million racial discrimination lawsuit against Compass Group PLC, a London-based food company that is regarded as the largest in the world of its kind. The class-action suit was filed on behalf of 11 current and former employees working at The Comcast Center in Philadelphia, as well as others who are part of the 100,000 workers Compass employs in the United States. The suit claims that the plaintiffs were victims of multiple acts of racial discrimination by co-workers and company management.  It charges that Black workers were the target of racial slurs, were denied promotions and were forced to work only in the kitchen area, while White workers were brought in to work private events. “This lawsuit has been filed to make sure no other Black employees at Compass or anywhere else are ever called the “N”-word, gorilla, referred to as chimps or denied equal treatment when they are just trying to do their jobs,” Thompson said. “The Compass Group has clear and strong policies that embrace diversity, inclusion and respect in the workplace and prohibit any sort of behavior that is contrary to these values,” the defendant said in a statement issued from its Charlotte, N.C. headquarters, The Philadelphia Daily News reports. “These are hard-working Black people who want to be left alone to do their jobs,” Thompson said. “They are Americans who go out and work hard and just want to be treated right.”