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
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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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