Mar. 14, 2017
Racism allowed on movie sets?
A Court of Appeal recently held that a black supervisor's verbal assault — including several racial slurs — against a black subordinate was not objectively offensive and therefore did not amount to unlawful racial workplace harassment. By Steven J. Kaplan
Has it come to this? In Daniel v. Wayans, 2017 DJDAR 1204 (Feb. 9, 2017), the Court of Appeal, over Justice Elwood Lui's partial dissent, held that a black supervisor's verbal assault against a black subordinate, including calling him a "nigga" and a "black fat ass," is not objectively offensive, and thus does not amount to unlawful racial workplace harassment. In contrast, the court suggested, the same language used b...
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