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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

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. Tondalaya Davis took a job at Elwyn Institute in 2018 to help patients in its New Beginnings Program. The Institute provides long-term residential care for severely impaired patients in a “step-down” program transitioning patients from a state mental hospital to a return to the community. She took the job from a similar position at another organization. She was assigned to work the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m...

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