Court Says Racial Slurs Against Black Health Aide Did Not Create Hostile Work Environment

Court Says Racial Slurs Against Black Health Aide Did Not Create Hostile Work Environment

“An objectively reasonable caretaker would not have been detrimentally affected” by patient’s use of N-word “all the time”

A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has dismissed a hostile work environment claim brought against a behavioral health facility by a black woman aide because “an objectively reasonable caretaker would not have been detrimentally affected” by her patient’s regular race-based harassment.

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