A man didn’t have to show his work was “hellish” to sue for a hostile work environment, a federal appeals court said.
In Gates v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, a black building engineer said his workplace was hostile because a supervisor threatened him racially and called him the “N” word.
It’s one thing when a co-worker says something like that, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said, but it’s a discrimination lawsuit when a supervisor says it.
