Supreme Court considers hearing case on the ‘most offensive word’
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
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WASHINGTON (AP) Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on a storage room wall. And for six months, he regularly rode an elevator with the N-word carved into a wall.
Collier ultimately sued the hospital, but lower courts dismissed his case. Now, however, at a private conference Thursday, the Supreme Court will consider for the first time whether to hear his case. Focusing on the elevator graffiti, Collier is asking the justices to decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment, giving an employee the ability to pursue a cas
U.S. Supreme Court considers hearing case over racial slur in the workplace
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
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By JESSICA GRESKO, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on a storage room wall. And for six months, he regularly rode an elevator with the N-word carved into a wall.
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Supreme Court justices consider hearing a case on the N-word
Robert Collier is asking the justices to decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment
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Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on a storage room wall. And for six months, he regularly rode an elevator with the N-word carved into a wall.
Collier ultimately sued the hospital, but lower courts dismissed his case. Now, however, at a private conference Thursday, the Supreme Court will consider for the first time whether to hear his case. Focusing on the elevator graffiti, Collier is asking the justices to decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment, giving an employee the ability to pursue a case under Title VII
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May 11, 2021 | 4:52 PM
(The Center Square) – Expect summer construction season to ramp up as communities around the state dip into grant money for construction projects.
The fourth round of $250 million in Rebuild Illinois grants will go to municipal, township and county projects around the state.
Projects include road and bridge improvements, new storm sewers and bike paths, and other long-term maintenance needs with financial oversight from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, while speaking in Champaign on Tuesday, said other Midwestern states are struggling to modernize and Illinois is passing them by.