Second Circuit Rules that a Single Racist Comment Can Create a Hostile Work Environment

Earlier this week, I reported in Murtha Cullina’s Labor and Employment Group News that the Second Circuit, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont, clarified that a single racist comment could support a claim for a discriminatory hostile work environment on the basis of race, where the comment constituted a “severe racial slur.”  To read the full article, simply click on the following link:    A Single Racist Comment Can Create a Hostile Work Environment.